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... 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 from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As , waving fresh their gladsome wing ...
... 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 from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As , waving fresh their gladsome wing ...
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... HAPPY Songster , perched above , On the summit of the grove , Whom a dew drop cheers to sing , With the freedom of a king . 240 245 250 From thy perch survey the fields Where prolific nature yields ON THE GRASSHOPPER 69 On a Grasshopper.
... HAPPY Songster , perched above , On the summit of the grove , Whom a dew drop cheers to sing , With the freedom of a king . 240 245 250 From thy perch survey the fields Where prolific nature yields ON THE GRASSHOPPER 69 On a Grasshopper.
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... happy then Beyond the happiest lot , Of all that ever passed my pen , So soon to be forgot ! O Phoebus , if such be thy design , To place it in thy bow , Give wit , that what is left With equal grace below . may shine 20 25 15 5 10 THE ...
... happy then Beyond the happiest lot , Of all that ever passed my pen , So soon to be forgot ! O Phoebus , if such be thy design , To place it in thy bow , Give wit , that what is left With equal grace below . may shine 20 25 15 5 10 THE ...
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Thomas Gray. THE SHRUBBERY WRITTEN IN A TIME OF AFFLICTION I OH happy shades ! to me unblest ! Friendly to peace , but not to me ! How ill the scene , that offers rest , And heart that cannot rest , agree ! II This glassy stream , that ...
Thomas Gray. THE SHRUBBERY WRITTEN IN A TIME OF AFFLICTION I OH happy shades ! to me unblest ! Friendly to peace , but not to me ! How ill the scene , that offers rest , And heart that cannot rest , agree ! II This glassy stream , that ...
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... happy hound 35 Told hill and dale that Reynard's track was found , Or with the high - raised horn's melodious clang All Kilwick and all Dinglederry rang . Sheep grazed the field ; some with soft bosom pressed 102 COWPER'S POEMS.
... happy hound 35 Told hill and dale that Reynard's track was found , Or with the high - raised horn's melodious clang All Kilwick and all Dinglederry rang . Sheep grazed the field ; some with soft bosom pressed 102 COWPER'S POEMS.
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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