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... line . ODIN No boding maid of skill divine Art thou , nor prophetess of good ; 85 But mother of the giant brood ! PROPHETESS Hie thee hence , and boast at home , That never shall inquirer come 90 90 5 To break my iron - sleep again 34 ...
... line . ODIN No boding maid of skill divine Art thou , nor prophetess of good ; 85 But mother of the giant brood ! PROPHETESS Hie thee hence , and boast at home , That never shall inquirer come 90 90 5 To break my iron - sleep again 34 ...
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... line the sides , but shivered long ago , And horrid brambles intertwine below ; A hollow scooped , I judge , in ancient time , For baking earth , or burning rock to lime . 15 20 Not yet the hawthorn bore her berries red , With which the ...
... line the sides , but shivered long ago , And horrid brambles intertwine below ; A hollow scooped , I judge , in ancient time , For baking earth , or burning rock to lime . 15 20 Not yet the hawthorn bore her berries red , With which the ...
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... line Of his descending progeny was found The first artificer of death ° ; the shrewd Contriver , who first sweated at the forge , And forced the blunt and yet unbloodied steel 215 To a keen edge , and made it bright for war . Him ...
... line Of his descending progeny was found The first artificer of death ° ; the shrewd Contriver , who first sweated at the forge , And forced the blunt and yet unbloodied steel 215 To a keen edge , and made it bright for war . Him ...
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... line Gray quotes from Dante : " Squilla di lontano , - Che paia ' l giorno pianger , che si muore . " ( He hears a bell from afar seeming to mourn the day that is dying . ) - Purgatory , Canto VII , 11. 5–6 . - Curfew . The ringing of a ...
... line Gray quotes from Dante : " Squilla di lontano , - Che paia ' l giorno pianger , che si muore . " ( He hears a bell from afar seeming to mourn the day that is dying . ) - Purgatory , Canto VII , 11. 5–6 . - Curfew . The ringing of a ...
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... lines from West when he wrote this stanza : " Ah me ! what boots us all our boasted power , Our golden treasure , and our purple state ; They cannot ward th ' inevitable hour , Nor stay the fearful violence of fate . " - - Monody on ...
... lines from West when he wrote this stanza : " Ah me ! what boots us all our boasted power , Our golden treasure , and our purple state ; They cannot ward th ' inevitable hour , Nor stay the fearful violence of fate . " - - Monody on ...
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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