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... lost . ] And so God save our noble king , And guard us from long - winded lubbers , That to eternity would sing , And keep my lady from her rubbers . ° 125 130 135 140 ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE ° Now the 46 GRAY'S POEMS.
... lost . ] And so God save our noble king , And guard us from long - winded lubbers , That to eternity would sing , And keep my lady from her rubbers . ° 125 130 135 140 ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE ° Now the 46 GRAY'S POEMS.
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... and harmony of life . See the wretch , that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain , At length repair his vigor lost , And breathe and walk again : 25 25 30 335 40 45 The meanest floweret of the vale , The simplest note 48 GRAY'S POEMS.
... and harmony of life . See the wretch , that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain , At length repair his vigor lost , And breathe and walk again : 25 25 30 335 40 45 The meanest floweret of the vale , The simplest note 48 GRAY'S POEMS.
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... lost . -Mason . ] When love could teach a monarch to be wise , And gospel - light first dawned from Bullen's eyes . ODE FOR MUSIC I. AIR HENCE , avaunt , ( ' tis holy ground , ) Comus , and his midnight - crew , ° And Ignorance with ...
... lost . -Mason . ] When love could teach a monarch to be wise , And gospel - light first dawned from Bullen's eyes . ODE FOR MUSIC I. AIR HENCE , avaunt , ( ' tis holy ground , ) Comus , and his midnight - crew , ° And Ignorance with ...
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... lost them sooner than at first , - For why they were too big . Now Mistress Gilpin , when she saw Her husband posting down Into the country far away , She pulled out half a crown ; And thus unto the youth she said , That drove them to ...
... lost them sooner than at first , - For why they were too big . Now Mistress Gilpin , when she saw Her husband posting down Into the country far away , She pulled out half a crown ; And thus unto the youth she said , That drove them to ...
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... lost in flags and reeds , Now starting into sight , Pursued the swallow o'er the meads With scarce a slower flight . It was the time when Ouse displayed His lilies newly blown ; Their beauties I intent surveyed And one I wished my own ...
... lost in flags and reeds , Now starting into sight , Pursued the swallow o'er the meads With scarce a slower flight . It was the time when Ouse displayed His lilies newly blown ; Their beauties I intent surveyed And one I wished my own ...
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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