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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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30 Let not ambition mock their useful toil , Their homely joys , and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur 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 ...
30 Let not ambition mock their useful toil , Their homely joys , and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur 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 ...
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40 45 Methinks I hear , in accents low , The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary flyo ! Thy joys no glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On ...
40 45 Methinks I hear , in accents low , The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary flyo ! Thy joys no glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On ...
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10 SKETCH OF HIS OWN CHARACTER O Too poor for a bribe , and too proud to importune ; He had not the method of making a fortune ; Could love , and could hate , so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit , he believed in a God : 5 A ...
10 SKETCH OF HIS OWN CHARACTER O Too poor for a bribe , and too proud to importune ; He had not the method of making a fortune ; Could love , and could hate , so was thought somewhat odd ; No very great wit , he believed in a God : 5 A ...
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O 115 But soon his rhetoric forsook him , When he the solemn hall had seen ; A sudden fit of ague shook him , He stood as mute as poor Macleane . ° 120 Yet something he was heard to mutter , “ How in the park beneath an old tree ...
O 115 But soon his rhetoric forsook him , When he the solemn hall had seen ; A sudden fit of ague shook him , He stood as mute as poor Macleane . ° 120 Yet something he was heard to mutter , “ How in the park beneath an old tree ...
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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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