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... death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid 45 Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ° ; Hands , that the rod of empire might have swayed , Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre : But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich ...
... death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid 45 Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ° ; Hands , that the rod of empire might have swayed , Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre : But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich ...
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... woe . Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : 60 65 70 75 80 This racks the joints , this fires the veins , ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE 11.
... woe . Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : 60 65 70 75 80 This racks the joints , this fires the veins , ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE 11.
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... DEATH OF MR . RICHARD WEST IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant ° join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire ° : 5 These ears , alas ...
... DEATH OF MR . RICHARD WEST IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant ° join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire ° : 5 These ears , alas ...
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... DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES ' TWAS on a lofty vase's side , ° Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow ; Demurest of the tabby ... DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT 15 Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat.
... DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES ' TWAS on a lofty vase's side , ° Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow ; Demurest of the tabby ... DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT 15 Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat.
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... 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 birds of ...
... 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 birds of ...
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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