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Page 126
... hast outlived Thy popularity , and art become ( Unless verse rescue thee awhile ) a thing Forgotten , as the foliage of thy youth . 55 61 While thus through all the stages thou hast pushed Of treeship first a seedling , hid in grass ...
... hast outlived Thy popularity , and art become ( Unless verse rescue thee awhile ) a thing Forgotten , as the foliage of thy youth . 55 61 While thus through all the stages thou hast pushed Of treeship first a seedling , hid in grass ...
Page 149
... hast mercy , which the great , With needless hurry whirled from place to place , Humane as they would seem , not always show . Poor , yet industrious , modest , quiet , neat , Such claim compassion in a night like this , And have a ...
... hast mercy , which the great , With needless hurry whirled from place to place , Humane as they would seem , not always show . Poor , yet industrious , modest , quiet , neat , Such claim compassion in a night like this , And have a ...
Page 181
... hast need of discipline and art To give thee what politer France receives From Nature's bounty that humane address And sweetness , without which no pleasure is In converse , either starved by cold reserve , Or flushed by fierce dispute ...
... hast need of discipline and art To give thee what politer France receives From Nature's bounty that humane address And sweetness , without which no pleasure is In converse , either starved by cold reserve , Or flushed by fierce dispute ...
Page 194
... hast built , With means that were not , till by thee employed , 850 Worlds that had never been , hadst Thou in strength Been less , or less benevolent than strong . They are Thy witnesses , who speak Thy power And goodness infinite ...
... hast built , With means that were not , till by thee employed , 850 Worlds that had never been , hadst Thou in strength Been less , or less benevolent than strong . They are Thy witnesses , who speak Thy power And goodness infinite ...
Page 195
... hast touched them ; ' tis the voice of song , A loud Hosanna sent from all Thy works ; Which he that hears it , with a shout repeats , And adds his rapture to the general praise . 890 895 In that best moment , Nature throwing wide Her ...
... hast touched them ; ' tis the voice of song , A loud Hosanna sent from all Thy works ; Which he that hears it , with a shout repeats , And adds his rapture to the general praise . 890 895 In that best moment , Nature throwing wide Her ...
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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