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... head ; Soon a king shall bite the ground . Long his loss shall Eirin weep , Ne'er again his likeness see ; Long her strains in sorrow steep : Strains of immortality ! Horror covers all the heath , Clouds of carnage blot the sun ...
... head ; Soon a king shall bite the ground . Long his loss shall Eirin weep , Ne'er again his likeness see ; Long her strains in sorrow steep : Strains of immortality ! Horror covers all the heath , Clouds of carnage blot the sun ...
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... golden bed ? 40 159 PROPHETESS Mantling in the goblet see The pure beverage of the bee : O'er it hangs the shield of gold ; ' Tis the drink of Balder bold : 45 145 Balder's head to death is given . Pain can reach 32 GRAY'S POEMS.
... golden bed ? 40 159 PROPHETESS Mantling in the goblet see The pure beverage of the bee : O'er it hangs the shield of gold ; ' Tis the drink of Balder bold : 45 145 Balder's head to death is given . Pain can reach 32 GRAY'S POEMS.
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Thomas Gray. Balder's head to death is given . Pain can reach the sons of heaven ! Unwilling I my lips unclose : Leave me , leave me to repose . ODIN Once again my call obey , ° Prophetess , arise , and say , What dangers Odin's child ...
Thomas Gray. Balder's head to death is given . Pain can reach the sons of heaven ! Unwilling I my lips unclose : Leave me , leave me to repose . ODIN Once again my call obey , ° Prophetess , arise , and say , What dangers Odin's child ...
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... toned shell , 20 And , as the choral warblings round him swell , Meek Newton's self bends from his state sub- lime , 25 And nods his hoary head , and listens to the rhyme . III . AIR " Ye brown o'er - arching groves 54 GRAY'S POEMS.
... toned shell , 20 And , as the choral warblings round him swell , Meek Newton's self bends from his state sub- lime , 25 And nods his hoary head , and listens to the rhyme . III . AIR " Ye brown o'er - arching groves 54 GRAY'S POEMS.
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Thomas Gray. And bid it round heaven's altars shed The fragrance of its blushing head : Shall raise from earth the latent gem To glitter on the diadem . VII . RECITATIVE " Lo ! Granta waits to lead her blooming band , Not obvious , not ...
Thomas Gray. And bid it round heaven's altars shed The fragrance of its blushing head : Shall raise from earth the latent gem To glitter on the diadem . VII . RECITATIVE " Lo ! Granta waits to lead her blooming band , Not obvious , not ...
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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