Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard |
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... village life of England before us , even though the very commencing word — the curfew - is rather a recollection of obsolete habits . In the second stanza is there not twilight in the very sounds ? ' Now fades the glimmering landscape ...
... village life of England before us , even though the very commencing word — the curfew - is rather a recollection of obsolete habits . In the second stanza is there not twilight in the very sounds ? ' Now fades the glimmering landscape ...
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... village scholar : There scattered oft , the earliest of the year , By hands unseen , are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there , And little footsteps lightly print the ground . 6 " Such were the still ...
... village scholar : There scattered oft , the earliest of the year , By hands unseen , are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there , And little footsteps lightly print the ground . 6 " Such were the still ...
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... Milton , here may rest , — Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood . ~ MEIER F XVI . The applause of listening senates to. Some village Hampden , that with dauntless breast Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect ,
... Milton , here may rest , — Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood . ~ MEIER F XVI . The applause of listening senates to. Some village Hampden , that with dauntless breast Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect ,
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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