Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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... Beneath those rugged elms , that yew - tree's shade , ° Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , Each in his narrow cell forever laid , The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep . R 15 The breezy call of incense - breathing morn ...
... Beneath those rugged elms , that yew - tree's shade , ° Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , Each in his narrow cell forever laid , The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep . R 15 The breezy call of incense - breathing morn ...
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... beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition 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 ...
... beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition 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 ...
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... beneath yon aged thorn . ° THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth , to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair science frowned not on his humble birth , And melancholy marked him for her own . Large was his bounty ...
... beneath yon aged thorn . ° THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth , to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair science frowned not on his humble birth , And melancholy marked him for her own . Large was his bounty ...
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... severest woe . Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : 60 65 70 75 80 This racks the joints , this fires the veins , ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE ...
... severest woe . Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : 60 65 70 75 80 This racks the joints , this fires the veins , ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE ...
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... beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid , She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat , In loose numbers wildly sweet , 60 Their feather - cinctured chiefs , and dusky loves . Her track , where'er the goddess roves ...
... beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid , She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat , In loose numbers wildly sweet , 60 Their feather - cinctured chiefs , and dusky loves . Her track , where'er the goddess roves ...
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