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... On the Loss of the Royal George Song on Peace On the Shortness of Human Life Epitaph on Johnson The Judgment of the Poets Yardley Oak To the Nightingale To Mary The Castaway The Task The Winter Evening The Winter Morning Walk .
... On the Loss of the Royal George Song on Peace On the Shortness of Human Life Epitaph on Johnson The Judgment of the Poets Yardley Oak To the Nightingale To Mary The Castaway The Task The Winter Evening The Winter Morning Walk .
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50 Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims play ; No sense have they of ills to come , Nor care beyond to - day : Yet see , how all around them wait The ministers of human fate , And black Misfortune's baleful train !
50 Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims play ; No sense have they of ills to come , Nor care beyond to - day : Yet see , how all around them wait The ministers of human fate , And black Misfortune's baleful train !
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O DAUGHTER of Jove , relentless power , Thou tamer of the human breast , Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright , afflict the best ! 5 Bound in thy adamantine chain , The proud are 12 GRAY'S POEMS Hymn to Adversity.
O DAUGHTER of Jove , relentless power , Thou tamer of the human breast , Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright , afflict the best ! 5 Bound in thy adamantine chain , The proud are 12 GRAY'S POEMS Hymn to Adversity.
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( ' Tis of human entrails made , ) And the weights , that play below , Each a gasping warrior's head . Shafts for shuttles , dipt in gore , Shoot the trembling cords along . Sword , that once a monarch bore , Keep the tissue close and ...
( ' Tis of human entrails made , ) And the weights , that play below , Each a gasping warrior's head . Shafts for shuttles , dipt in gore , Shoot the trembling cords along . Sword , that once a monarch bore , Keep the tissue close and ...
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Him the dog of darkness spied ; His shaggy . throat he opened wide ( While from his jaws , with carnage filled , Foam and human gore distilled :) Hoarse he bays with hideous din , Eyes that glow , and fangs that grin ; And long pursues ...
Him the dog of darkness spied ; His shaggy . throat he opened wide ( While from his jaws , with carnage filled , Foam and human gore distilled :) Hoarse he bays with hideous din , Eyes that glow , and fangs that grin ; And long pursues ...
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems Macmillian's pocket American and English classics |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1909 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2019 |
| Length | 268 pages |
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