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... trains of thought , no feelings of peculiar refinement , with the grand and beautiful of nature , while at the same time the strain of his sentiment was pure , manly , and exalted . By addressing himself to the heart universal , and ...
... trains of thought , no feelings of peculiar refinement , with the grand and beautiful of nature , while at the same time the strain of his sentiment was pure , manly , and exalted . By addressing himself to the heart universal , and ...
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... SPRING ° Lo ! where the rosy - bosomed Hours , ° Fair Venus ' train , appear , Disclose the long - expecting flowers , And wake the purple year ! The Attic warbler ° pours her throat , Responsive to 6 GRAY'S POEMS Ode on the Spring.
... SPRING ° Lo ! where the rosy - bosomed Hours , ° Fair Venus ' train , appear , Disclose the long - expecting flowers , And wake the purple year ! The Attic warbler ° pours her throat , Responsive to 6 GRAY'S POEMS Ode on the Spring.
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... of ills to come , Nor care beyond to - day : Yet see , how all around them wait The ministers of human fate , And black Misfortune's baleful train ! 335 40 45 50 55 55 Ah , show them where in ambush stand , To 10 GRAY'S POEMS.
... of ills to come , Nor care beyond to - day : Yet see , how all around them wait The ministers of human fate , And black Misfortune's baleful train ! 335 40 45 50 55 55 Ah , show them where in ambush stand , To 10 GRAY'S POEMS.
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... train be there To soften , not to wound , my heart . The generous spark extinct revive , Teach me to love , and to forgive , Exact my own defects to scan , What others are to feel , and know myself a Man . 1555 45 SONNET ON THE DEATH OF ...
... train be there To soften , not to wound , my heart . The generous spark extinct revive , Teach me to love , and to forgive , Exact my own defects to scan , What others are to feel , and know myself a Man . 1555 45 SONNET ON THE DEATH OF ...
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... train , And Death , sad refuge from the storms of fate ! 45 The fond complaint , my song , disprove , And justify the laws of Jove . Say , has he given in vain the heavenly Muse ? Night and all her sickly dews , Her spectręs wan , and ...
... train , And Death , sad refuge from the storms of fate ! 45 The fond complaint , my song , disprove , And justify the laws of Jove . Say , has he given in vain the heavenly Muse ? Night and all her sickly dews , Her spectręs wan , and ...
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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