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... eye , That mocks the tear it forced to flow ; And keen Remorse with blood defiled , And moody Madness laughing wild ° Amid severest woe . Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More ...
... eye , That mocks the tear it forced to flow ; And keen Remorse with blood defiled , And moody Madness laughing wild ° Amid severest woe . Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A griesly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More ...
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... profound , And Melancholy , silent maid , With leaden eye that loves the ground , Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity , the general friend , 25 30 With Justice , to herself severe , And Pity , HYMN TO ADVERSITY 13.
... profound , And Melancholy , silent maid , With leaden eye that loves the ground , Still on thy solemn steps attend : Warm Charity , the general friend , 25 30 With Justice , to herself severe , And Pity , HYMN TO ADVERSITY 13.
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... eyes require : My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire . Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer , And new - born pleasure brings to happier men : 10 The fields to all their wonted ...
... eyes require : My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire . Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer , And new - born pleasure brings to happier men : 10 The fields to all their wonted ...
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... heard , A favorite has no friend ! From hence , ye beauties , undeceived , Know , one false step is ne'er retrieved , And be with caution bold . 15 20 25 30 35 Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts 16 GRAY'S POEMS.
... heard , A favorite has no friend ! From hence , ye beauties , undeceived , Know , one false step is ne'er retrieved , And be with caution bold . 15 20 25 30 35 Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts 16 GRAY'S POEMS.
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Thomas Gray. Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize . Nor all , that glisters , gold . ° THE PROGRESS OF POESY ° Φωνᾶντα συνετοῖσιν · ἐς Δὲ τὸ πᾶν ἑρμηνέων Χατίζει . PINDAR . OLYMP . II . V. 152 . I ...
Thomas Gray. Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize . Nor all , that glisters , gold . ° THE PROGRESS OF POESY ° Φωνᾶντα συνετοῖσιν · ἐς Δὲ τὸ πᾶν ἑρμηνέων Χατίζει . PINDAR . OLYMP . II . V. 152 . I ...
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Ęschylus Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cęsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Edward Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cęsar 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