Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard |
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... heart . We are always glad to have our own judgments assisted and guided by the thoughts and sayings of eminent men ; and these acquire a more impressive and thrilling interest , if they have been expressed shortly before the close of ...
... heart . We are always glad to have our own judgments assisted and guided by the thoughts and sayings of eminent men ; and these acquire a more impressive and thrilling interest , if they have been expressed shortly before the close of ...
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... heart once pregnant with celestial fire , Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed , Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre . ' I must not pursue the description of the care - crazed or love - crossed youth , and his epitaph . I ...
... heart once pregnant with celestial fire , Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed , Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre . ' I must not pursue the description of the care - crazed or love - crossed youth , and his epitaph . I ...
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... hearts reply ; Then voice and echo die , Quivering an instant fitfully , Like a sick torch - flame , quenched amid its flaring . A moment more , The lover sinks where sunk the loved before , And the wild world whirls on , wild as it ...
... hearts reply ; Then voice and echo die , Quivering an instant fitfully , Like a sick torch - flame , quenched amid its flaring . A moment more , The lover sinks where sunk the loved before , And the wild world whirls on , wild as it ...
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air a solemn alike the inevitable beetle wheels beneath Boston breath cell forever laid church of Stoke cock's shrill clarion compromise of 1834 Country Church-yard DANIEL WEBSTER death distant folds droning flight drowsy tinklings lull dust E'en echoing horn ecstasy the living England fades the glimmering fame glimmering landscape grave hamlet sleep Hampshire heart once pregnant heaves the turf laid Some heart lull the distant Massachusetts MOSES mouldering heap narrow cell forever o'er paths of glory peaceful poem poet Poetry of Gray Portsmouth PREFACE pregnant with celestial Q F B B rude forefathers rugged elms sacred Salisbury sequestered Sheffield slavery solemn stillness holds spot is laid stanzas STOKE POGIS CHURCH tariff compromise THOMAS GRAY tomb voice waked to ecstasy WAVERLEY MAGAZINE wealth e'er gave Webster remained Webster was called wheels his droning whig national convention Windsor Wolfe wrote his Elegy yew-tree's shade कर শু