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... hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set , thy spring is gone - We frolic while ' tis May . ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE Ανθρωπος , ἱκανὴ πρόφασις εἰς ...
... hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set , thy spring is gone - We frolic while ' tis May . ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE Ανθρωπος , ἱκανὴ πρόφασις εἰς ...
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... hast seen Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , 10 15 20 The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle ...
... hast seen Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , 10 15 20 The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle ...
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... hast thou stolen away 5 10 A poet's drop of ink ? Upborne into the viewless air , It floats a vapor now , Impelled through regions dense and rare By all the winds that blow . 15 Ordained , perhaps , ere summer flies , Combined with ...
... hast thou stolen away 5 10 A poet's drop of ink ? Upborne into the viewless air , It floats a vapor now , Impelled through regions dense and rare By all the winds that blow . 15 Ordained , perhaps , ere summer flies , Combined with ...
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... hast reached the shore , " Where tempests never beat nor billows roar , And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side . But me , scarce hoping to attain that rest , Always from port withheld ...
... hast reached the shore , " Where tempests never beat nor billows roar , And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side . But me , scarce hoping to attain that rest , Always from port withheld ...
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... hast spilled ; Perish hopeless and abhorred , Deep in ruin as in guilt . V " Rome , for empire far renowned , Tramples on a thousand states ; Soon her pride shall kiss the ground , - Hark ! the Gaul is at her gates . VI " Other Romans ...
... hast spilled ; Perish hopeless and abhorred , Deep in ruin as in guilt . V " Rome , for empire far renowned , Tramples on a thousand states ; Soon her pride shall kiss the ground , - Hark ! the Gaul is at her gates . VI " Other Romans ...
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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