Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream . Shakespeare's Richard II . Shakespeare's Richard III . Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . Shakespeare's The Tempest . Shakespeare's Twelfth Night . Shelley and Keats : Poems .
Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream . Shakespeare's Richard II . Shakespeare's Richard III . Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . Shakespeare's The Tempest . Shakespeare's Twelfth Night . Shelley and Keats : Poems .
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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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Night and all her sickly dews , Her spectres wan , and birds of boding cry , o He gives to range the dreary sky ; Till down the eastern cliffs afaro Hyperion'so march they spy , and glittering shafts of 50 war . II .
Night and all her sickly dews , Her spectres wan , and birds of boding cry , o He gives to range the dreary sky ; Till down the eastern cliffs afaro Hyperion'so march they spy , and glittering shafts of 50 war . II .
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He passed the flaming bounds of place and time : The living throne , the sapphire blaze , o Where angels tremble while they gaze , He saw ; but , blasted with excess of light , Closed his eyes in endless night .
He passed the flaming bounds of place and time : The living throne , the sapphire blaze , o Where angels tremble while they gaze , He saw ; but , blasted with excess of light , Closed his eyes in endless night .
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Mark the year , and mark the night , When Severn shall reëcho with affright The shrieks of death , through Berkley's roof that ring , 55 Shrieks of an agonizing kingo ! She - wolf of France , with unrelenting fangs , That tearest the ...
Mark the year , and mark the night , When Severn shall reëcho with affright The shrieks of death , through Berkley's roof that ring , 55 Shrieks of an agonizing kingo ! She - wolf of France , with unrelenting fangs , That tearest the ...
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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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