Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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... wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way . Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh , 70 75 With uncouth rhymes and ...
... wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way . Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh , 70 75 With uncouth rhymes and ...
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... wish , She stretched , in vain , to reach the prize . What female heart can gold despise ? What Cat's averse to fish ? Presumptuous maid ! with looks intent Again she stretched , again she bent , Nor knew the gulf between . ( Malignant ...
... wish , She stretched , in vain , to reach the prize . What female heart can gold despise ? What Cat's averse to fish ? Presumptuous maid ! with looks intent Again she stretched , again she bent , Nor knew the gulf between . ( Malignant ...
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... wish to please her ! With bonnet blue and capuchine , ° And aprons long , they hid their armor ; And veiled their weapons , bright and keen , In pity to the country farmer . Fame , in the shape of Mr. P — t , ° ( By this time all the ...
... wish to please her ! With bonnet blue and capuchine , ° And aprons long , they hid their armor ; And veiled their weapons , bright and keen , In pity to the country farmer . Fame , in the shape of Mr. P — t , ° ( By this time all the ...
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... returns of gratitude they know , By fraud elude , by force repel the foe ; 15 20 20 25 25 30 35 While mutual wishes , mutual woes endear The social smile , the sympathetic tear . 40 Say , then , through ages by what fate 50 GRAY'S POEMS.
... returns of gratitude they know , By fraud elude , by force repel the foe ; 15 20 20 25 25 30 35 While mutual wishes , mutual woes endear The social smile , the sympathetic tear . 40 Say , then , through ages by what fate 50 GRAY'S POEMS.
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... wish might be said ; But , while they get riches by purchasing blacks , 15 Pray tell me why we may not also go snacks ? Your scruples and arguments bring to my mind A story so pat , you may think it is coined On purpose to answer you ...
... wish might be said ; But , while they get riches by purchasing blacks , 15 Pray tell me why we may not also go snacks ? Your scruples and arguments bring to my mind A story so pat , you may think it is coined On purpose to answer you ...
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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