Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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... mock their useful toil , Their homely joys , and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor . The boast of heraldry , the pomp of pow'r , 4 ELEGY AND OTHER POEMS .
... mock their useful toil , Their homely joys , and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor . The boast of heraldry , the pomp of pow'r , 4 ELEGY AND OTHER POEMS .
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... mock the air with idle state . Helm , nor hauberk's twisted mail , Nor e'en thy virtues , Tyrant , shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears , From Cambria's curse , from Cambria's tears ! " Such were the sounds that o'er ...
... mock the air with idle state . Helm , nor hauberk's twisted mail , Nor e'en thy virtues , Tyrant , shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears , From Cambria's curse , from Cambria's tears ! " Such were the sounds that o'er ...
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... And hard Unkindness ' alter'd eye , That mocks the tears it forced to flow ; And keen Remorse with blood defiled , And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest woe . Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A grisly ELEGY AND OTHER POEMS . 27.
... And hard Unkindness ' alter'd eye , That mocks the tears it forced to flow ; And keen Remorse with blood defiled , And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest woe . Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A grisly ELEGY AND OTHER POEMS . 27.
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abode affright alike ample arms azure baleful beneath blow blush born bosom breast breathe Cambria's cheer cries crown dauntless Dear Death deep dews Disdainful distant doom dreary E'en e'er Ecstasy ELEGY faded fame Fancy fate fears fire flame flowers fond Forbade forlorn Gales glitter glory golden grisly Hark Headlong hear heart Heav'n Helm hoary holy hush'd Jove kindred King Labor laid lance laughing lawn light Love lyre mighty mock morn Muse Muse's night noontide o'er pain Penury Pindaric Ode pleasing POEMS pomp prey pride Quench'd race Rapture reign rill rove sable sceptred scorn secret shade shaggy Shame Shrieks sleep slumber smile Snowdon's soft solemn Sorrow's soul spirit steep strains stray'd sublime sweet tear Thames thee Thine thou thro tremble turf Tyrant unroll vale Vocal voice warbled warm wave Weave Where'er wild wing wood woof yonder youth