Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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... thou can'st read ) the lay 115 ' Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn . ° THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth , to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair science frowned not on his humble birth , And ...
... thou can'st read ) the lay 115 ' Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn . ° THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth , to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair science frowned not on his humble birth , And ...
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... thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set , thy spring is gone ° We frolic while ' tis May ...
... thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets , No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets , No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set , thy spring is gone ° We frolic while ' tis May ...
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... thou hast seen ° Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny ...
... thou hast seen ° Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace ; Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny ...
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... Jove , relentless power , Thou tamer of the human breast , Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright , afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain , The proud are taught 127 GRAY'S POEMS Hymn to Adversity.
... Jove , relentless power , Thou tamer of the human breast , Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright , afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain , The proud are taught 127 GRAY'S POEMS Hymn to Adversity.
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... thou bad'st her know , 15 And from her own she learned to melt at others ' woe . Scared at thy frown terrific , fly Self - pleasing Folly's idle brood , Wild Laughter , Noise , and thoughtless Joy , And leave us leisure to be good ...
... thou bad'st her know , 15 And from her own she learned to melt at others ' woe . Scared at thy frown terrific , fly Self - pleasing Folly's idle brood , Wild Laughter , Noise , and thoughtless Joy , And leave us leisure to be good ...
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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