Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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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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60 The applause of listening senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a nation's eyes , 65 Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing ...
60 The applause of listening senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a nation's eyes , 65 Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing ...
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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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RICHARD WEST ° In vain to me the smiling morningso shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descanto join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attireo : 5 These ears , alas ! for other ...
RICHARD WEST ° In vain to me the smiling morningso shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descanto join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attireo : 5 These ears , alas ! for other ...
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Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer , And new - born pleasure brings to happier men : 10 The fields to all their wonted tribute bear : To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear ...
Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer , And new - born pleasure brings to happier men : 10 The fields to all their wonted tribute bear : To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear ...
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User Review - keylawk - LibraryThingReprint of what may once have been one of the most familiar poems in English from the 18th century. At a time when few could read in England, one of its most educated sons, and the companion of Horace ... Read full review
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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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