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... hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor . The boast of heraldry , the pomp of power , And all that beauty , all that wealth e'er gave , Awaits alike the inevitable hour : - O The paths of glory lead but to ...
... hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor . The boast of heraldry , the pomp of power , And all that beauty , all that wealth e'er gave , Awaits alike the inevitable hour : - O The paths of glory lead but to ...
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... hear , in accents low , The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth ...
... hear , in accents low , The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth ...
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... hear a voice in every wind , And snatch a fearful joy . Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed , Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed , The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health , of rosy hue , Wild wit ...
... hear a voice in every wind , And snatch a fearful joy . Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed , Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot as soon as shed , The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health , of rosy hue , Wild wit ...
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... hear , And weep the more , because I weep in vain . ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES ' TWAS on a lofty vase's side , ° Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow ; Demurest of the ...
... hear , And weep the more , because I weep in vain . ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES ' TWAS on a lofty vase's side , ° Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow ; Demurest of the ...
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... , ° Parent of sweet and solemn - breathing airs , Enchanting shell ! the sullen Cares And frantic Passions hear thy soft control . C 15 On Thracia's hills the Lord of War ° Has curbed THE PROGRESS OF POESY 17 The Progress of Poesy.
... , ° Parent of sweet and solemn - breathing airs , Enchanting shell ! the sullen Cares And frantic Passions hear thy soft control . C 15 On Thracia's hills the Lord of War ° Has curbed THE PROGRESS OF POESY 17 The Progress of Poesy.
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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