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On his monument the following stanza is inscribed : Ye who with warmth the public triumph feel Of talents , dignified by sacred zeal , Here , to devotion's bard devoutly just , Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust !
On his monument the following stanza is inscribed : Ye who with warmth the public triumph feel Of talents , dignified by sacred zeal , Here , to devotion's bard devoutly just , Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust !
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... by the humble as well as the high , he influenced a wider circle than any poet who went before him ; and by inspiring a feeling of intimacy , a kind of domestic confidence in his readers , he made his works household words .
... by the humble as well as the high , he influenced a wider circle than any poet who went before him ; and by inspiring a feeling of intimacy , a kind of domestic confidence in his readers , he made his works household words .
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I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As , waving fresh their gladsome wing , My weary soul they seem to soothe , And , redolent of joy and youth , To breathe a second spring . O 20 25 Say , father Thames ...
I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As , waving fresh their gladsome wing , My weary soul they seem to soothe , And , redolent of joy and youth , To breathe a second spring . O 20 25 Say , father Thames ...
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The generous spark extinct revive , Teach me to love , and to forgive , Exact my own defects to scan , What others are to feel , and know myself a Man . 45 SONNET ON THE DEATH OF MR . RICHARD WEST ° In vain to me the smiling morningso ...
The generous spark extinct revive , Teach me to love , and to forgive , Exact my own defects to scan , What others are to feel , and know myself a Man . 45 SONNET ON THE DEATH OF MR . RICHARD WEST ° In vain to me the smiling morningso ...
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... How rude soe'er the exterior form we find , Howe'er opinion tinge the varied mind , Alike to all , the kind , impartial heaven The sparks of truth and happiness has given : With sense to feel , with memory to retain , They follow ...
... How rude soe'er the exterior form we find , Howe'er opinion tinge the varied mind , Alike to all , the kind , impartial heaven The sparks of truth and happiness has given : With sense to feel , with memory to retain , They follow ...
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems Macmillian's pocket American and English classics |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1909 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2019 |
| Length | 268 pages |
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