Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems |
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Milton's Paradise Lost , Books I and II . Old English Ballads . Old Testament Selections . Palgrave's Golden Treasury . anSarkman's Oregon Trail . Plutarch's Lives of Cæsar , Brutus , and 07 Mark Antony . Poe's Poems . elsce's Prose ...
Milton's Paradise Lost , Books I and II . Old English Ballads . Old Testament Selections . Palgrave's Golden Treasury . anSarkman's Oregon Trail . Plutarch's Lives of Cæsar , Brutus , and 07 Mark Antony . Poe's Poems . elsce's Prose ...
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When Latium had her lofty spirit lost , They sought , oh Albiono ! next thy sea - encircled coast . 0 80 III . 1 85 Far from the sun and summer - gale , In thy green lap was Nature's Darlingo laid , What time , where lucid Avon strayed ...
When Latium had her lofty spirit lost , They sought , oh Albiono ! next thy sea - encircled coast . 0 80 III . 1 85 Far from the sun and summer - gale , In thy green lap was Nature's Darlingo laid , What time , where lucid Avon strayed ...
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On dreary Arvon's shore they lie , o Smeared with gore , and ghastly pale : Far , far aloof the affrighted ravens sail ; The famished eagle screams , and passes by . Dear lost companions of my tuneful art ...
On dreary Arvon's shore they lie , o Smeared with gore , and ghastly pale : Far , far aloof the affrighted ravens sail ; The famished eagle screams , and passes by . Dear lost companions of my tuneful art ...
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No more our long - lost Arthuro we bewail . All hail , ye genuine kings , ' Britannia's issue , hail ! 110 > III . 2 “ Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames , and statesmen old In bearded ...
No more our long - lost Arthuro we bewail . All hail , ye genuine kings , ' Britannia's issue , hail ! 110 > III . 2 “ Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames , and statesmen old In bearded ...
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130 A voice , as of the cherub - choir , Gales from blooming Eden bear ; And distant warblings lessen on my ear , o That lost in long futurity expire . Fond impious man , think'st thou yon sanguine cloud , Raised by thy breath ...
130 A voice , as of the cherub - choir , Gales from blooming Eden bear ; And distant warblings lessen on my ear , o That lost in long futurity expire . Fond impious man , think'st thou yon sanguine cloud , Raised by thy breath ...
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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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