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... flower is born to blush unseen , And waste its sweetness on the desert air . 55 Some village Hampden , that , with dauntless breast , The little tyrant of his fields withstood , Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest , Some Cromwell ...
... flower is born to blush unseen , And waste its sweetness on the desert air . 55 Some village Hampden , that , with dauntless breast , The little tyrant of his fields withstood , Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest , Some Cromwell ...
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... ! where the rosy - bosomed Hours , Fair Venus ' train , appear , Disclose the long - expecting flowers , And wake the purple year ! 125 The Attic warbler pours her throat , Responsive to the 6 GRAY'S POEMS Ode on the Spring.
... ! where the rosy - bosomed Hours , Fair Venus ' train , appear , Disclose the long - expecting flowers , And wake the purple year ! 125 The Attic warbler pours her throat , Responsive to the 6 GRAY'S POEMS Ode on the Spring.
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... flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver - winding way : Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! Ah , fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed , A stranger yet to pain ° ! I feel the gales that ...
... flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver - winding way : Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! Ah , fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood strayed , A stranger yet to pain ° ! I feel the gales that ...
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... flowers that blow ; Demurest of the tabby kind , The pensive Selima , reclined , Gazed on the lake below . Her conscious tail her joy declared ; The fair round face , the snowy beard , The velvet of her paws , Her coat , that with the ...
... flowers that blow ; Demurest of the tabby kind , The pensive Selima , reclined , Gazed on the lake below . Her conscious tail her joy declared ; The fair round face , the snowy beard , The velvet of her paws , Her coat , that with the ...
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... flowers that round them blow , Drink life and fragrance as they flow . Now the rich stream of music winds along , Deep , majestic , smooth , and strong , Through verdant dales , and Ceres ' golden reigno : 5 Now rolling down the steep ...
... flowers that round them blow , Drink life and fragrance as they flow . Now the rich stream of music winds along , Deep , majestic , smooth , and strong , Through verdant dales , and Ceres ' golden reigno : 5 Now rolling down the steep ...
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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