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... smile The short and simple annals of the poor . The boast of heraldry , the pomp of power , And all that beauty , all that wealth e'er gave , Awaits alike the inevitable hour : - O The paths of glory lead but to the grave . 30 35 Nor ...
... smile The short and simple annals of the poor . The boast of heraldry , the pomp of power , And all that beauty , all that wealth e'er gave , Awaits alike the inevitable hour : - O The paths of glory lead but to the grave . 30 35 Nor ...
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... threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone 65 Their growing ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH - YARD 3.
... threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone 65 Their growing ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCH - YARD 3.
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... smiling as in scorn , ° Muttering his wayward fancies would he rove , Now drooping , woful - wan , like one forlorn , Or crazed with care , or crossed in hopeless love . " One morn I missed him on the customed hill , Along the heath ...
... smiling as in scorn , ° Muttering his wayward fancies would he rove , Now drooping , woful - wan , like one forlorn , Or crazed with care , or crossed in hopeless love . " One morn I missed him on the customed hill , Along the heath ...
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... smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant ° join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire ° : 5 These ears , alas ! for other notes repine 14 GRAY'S POEMS Sonnet ...
... smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant ° join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire ° : 5 These ears , alas ! for other notes repine 14 GRAY'S POEMS Sonnet ...
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... 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 , And weep the ...
... 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 , And weep 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