Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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... leaves the world to darkness and to me . Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight , 5 And all the air a solemn stillness holds , Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight , And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save ...
... leaves the world to darkness and to me . Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight , 5 And all the air a solemn stillness holds , Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight , And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save ...
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... leave , in dust to rest . Methinks I 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 ...
... leave , in dust to rest . Methinks I 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 ...
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... leave us leisure to be good . Light they disperse , and with them go The summer friend , the flattering foe ; By vain Prosperity received , 20 20 To her they vow their truth , and are again believed . Wisdom in sable garb arrayed ...
... leave us leisure to be good . Light they disperse , and with them go The summer friend , the flattering foe ; By vain Prosperity received , 20 20 To her they vow their truth , and are again believed . Wisdom in sable garb arrayed ...
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... Leave me unblessed , unpitied , here to mourn : In yon bright track , that fires the western skies , They melt , they vanish from my eyes . 100 But oh ! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height 105 Descending slow their glittering skirts ...
... Leave me unblessed , unpitied , here to mourn : In yon bright track , that fires the western skies , They melt , they vanish from my eyes . 100 But oh ! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height 105 Descending slow their glittering skirts ...
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... Leave me , leave me to repose . ODIN Once again my call obey , ° Prophetess , arise , and say , What dangers Odin's child await , Who the author of his fate ? PROPHETESS In Hoder's hand the hero's doom ; His brother sends him to the ...
... Leave me , leave me to repose . ODIN Once again my call obey , ° Prophetess , arise , and say , What dangers Odin's child await , Who the author of his fate ? PROPHETESS In Hoder's hand the hero's doom ; His brother sends him to the ...
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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