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... fire ° ; Hands , that the rod of empire might have swayed , Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre : But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; 50 Chill penury repressed their noble rage ...
... fire ° ; Hands , that the rod of empire might have swayed , Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre : But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; 50 Chill penury repressed their noble rage ...
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... fires . ° For thee , who , mindful of the unhonored dead , Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance , by lonely contemplation led , O Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate , - Haply some hoary - headed swain may ...
... fires . ° For thee , who , mindful of the unhonored dead , Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance , by lonely contemplation led , O Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate , - Haply some hoary - headed swain may ...
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... 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 11.
... 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 11.
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Thomas Gray. This racks the joints , this fires the veins , That every laboring sinew strains , Those in the deeper vitals rage : Lo ! Poverty , to fill the band , That numbs the soul with icy hand , And slow - consuming Age . To each ...
Thomas Gray. This racks the joints , this fires the veins , That every laboring sinew strains , Those in the deeper vitals rage : Lo ! Poverty , to fill the band , That numbs the soul with icy hand , And slow - consuming Age . To each ...
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... reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant ° join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire ° : 5 These ears , alas ! for other notes repine 14 GRAY'S POEMS Sonnet on the Death of Richard West.
... reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant ° join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire ° : 5 These ears , alas ! for other notes repine 14 GRAY'S POEMS Sonnet on the Death of Richard West.
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Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cæsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden golden reign grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cæsar 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