Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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59 69 70 71 73 75 77 78 80 82 84 CowPER'S POEMS : The Diverting History of John Gilpin On a Grasshopper The Rose The Doves Ode to Apollo The Dog and the Water Lily The Shrubbery The Negro's Complaint Pity for Poor Africans The Morning ...
59 69 70 71 73 75 77 78 80 82 84 CowPER'S POEMS : The Diverting History of John Gilpin On a Grasshopper The Rose The Doves Ode to Apollo The Dog and the Water Lily The Shrubbery The Negro's Complaint Pity for Poor Africans The Morning ...
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... that yew - tree's shade , Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , Each in his narrow cell forever laid , The rude o forefathers of the hamlet sleep . 15 O The breezy call of incense - breathing morn , The GRAY'S POEMS:
... that yew - tree's shade , Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , Each in his narrow cell forever laid , The rude o forefathers of the hamlet sleep . 15 O The breezy call of incense - breathing morn , The GRAY'S POEMS:
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The breezy call of incense - breathing morn , The swallow twittering from the straw - built shed , The cock's shrill clarion , or the echoing horn , No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed . ° 20 For them no more the blazing ...
The breezy call of incense - breathing morn , The swallow twittering from the straw - built shed , The cock's shrill clarion , or the echoing horn , No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed . ° 20 For them no more the blazing ...
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105 “ Hard by yon wood , now smiling as in scorn , o Muttering his wayward fancies would he rove , Now drooping , woful - wan , like one forlorn , Or crazed with care , or crossed in hopeless love . 110 “ One morn I missed him on the ...
105 “ Hard by yon wood , now smiling as in scorn , o Muttering his wayward fancies would he rove , Now drooping , woful - wan , like one forlorn , Or crazed with care , or crossed in hopeless love . 110 “ One morn I missed him on the ...
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... of the breast : Theirs buxom health , of rosy hue , Wild wit , invention ever new , And lively cheer , of vigor born ; The thoughtless day , the easy night , The spirits pure , the slumbers light , , That fly the approach of morn .
... of the breast : Theirs buxom health , of rosy hue , Wild wit , invention ever new , And lively cheer , of vigor born ; The thoughtless day , the easy night , The spirits pure , the slumbers light , , That fly the approach of morn .
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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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