Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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... crowd's ignoble strife , Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way . Yet ev❜n these bones from insult to protect Some frail 6 ELEGY AND OTHER POEMS .
... crowd's ignoble strife , Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way . Yet ev❜n these bones from insult to protect Some frail 6 ELEGY AND OTHER POEMS .
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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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Thomas Gray. Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A grisly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : This racks the joints , this fires the veins , That every laboring sinew strains , Those in the deeper ...
Thomas Gray. Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A grisly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : This racks the joints , this fires the veins , That every laboring sinew strains , Those in the deeper ...
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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