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... e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh , With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked , Implores the passing tribute of a sigh . 80 Their name , their years , spelt by the unlettered Muse ...
... e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh , With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked , Implores the passing tribute of a sigh . 80 Their name , their years , spelt by the unlettered Muse ...
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... E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries , E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires . ° For thee , who , mindful of the unhonored dead , Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance , by lonely contemplation led , Some ...
... E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries , E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires . ° For thee , who , mindful of the unhonored dead , Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance , by lonely contemplation led , Some ...
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... e'en thy virtues , Tyrant , shall avail 5 10 To save thy secret soul from nightly fears , From Cambria's curse , from Cambria's tears ! " Such were the sounds that o'er the crested pride Of the first Edward scattered wild dismay , As ...
... e'en thy virtues , Tyrant , shall avail 5 10 To save thy secret soul from nightly fears , From Cambria's curse , from Cambria's tears ! " Such were the sounds that o'er the crested pride Of the first Edward scattered wild dismay , As ...
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... life In all that live , plant , animal , and man , 65 70 75 And in conclusion mar them . Nature's threads , 80 Fine passing thought , e'en in her coarsest works , Delight in agitation , yet sustain The force , that 126 COWPER'S POEMS.
... life In all that live , plant , animal , and man , 65 70 75 And in conclusion mar them . Nature's threads , 80 Fine passing thought , e'en in her coarsest works , Delight in agitation , yet sustain The force , that 126 COWPER'S POEMS.
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... e'en critics criticise ; that holds Inquisitive attention , while I read , Fast bound in chains of silence , which the fair , Though eloquent themselves , yet fear to break ; 50 What is it , but a map of busy life , 55 Its fluctuations ...
... e'en critics criticise ; that holds Inquisitive attention , while I read , Fast bound in chains of silence , which the fair , Though eloquent themselves , yet fear to break ; 50 What is it , but a map of busy life , 55 Its fluctuations ...
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Ęschylus Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cęsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Edward Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cęsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote