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... wast dead , Say , wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son , H Wretch even then , life's journey just begun ? Perhaps MY MOTHER'S PICTURE 97 On Receipt of my Mother's Picture.
... wast dead , Say , wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son , H Wretch even then , life's journey just begun ? Perhaps MY MOTHER'S PICTURE 97 On Receipt of my Mother's Picture.
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Thomas Gray. Wretch even then , life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me , though unfelt , a kiss ; 25 Perhaps a tear , if souls can weep in bliss - Ah , that maternal smile ! it answers Yes . I heard the bell tolled on thy ...
Thomas Gray. Wretch even then , life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me , though unfelt , a kiss ; 25 Perhaps a tear , if souls can weep in bliss - Ah , that maternal smile ! it answers Yes . I heard the bell tolled on thy ...
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... Perhaps a frail memorial , but sincere , Not scorned in Heaven , though little noticed here . 65 70 Could Time , his flight reversed , restore the hours , When , playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers , 75 The violet , the pink ...
... Perhaps a frail memorial , but sincere , Not scorned in Heaven , though little noticed here . 65 70 Could Time , his flight reversed , restore the hours , When , playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers , 75 The violet , the pink ...
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... perhaps I might.- what here we call our life is such , But no So little to be loved , and thou so much , That I should ill requite thee to constrain Thy unbound spirit into bonds again . ܙܙ ܘ 85 90 95 Thou , as a gallant bark from ...
... perhaps I might.- what here we call our life is such , But no So little to be loved , and thou so much , That I should ill requite thee to constrain Thy unbound spirit into bonds again . ܙܙ ܘ 85 90 95 Thou , as a gallant bark from ...
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... perhaps , and wandering wide , Might be supposed to clamor for a guide . But ah ! those dreadful yells what soul can hear That owns a carcass and not quake for fear ? Demons produce them doubtless , brazen - clawed , And fanged with ...
... perhaps , and wandering wide , Might be supposed to clamor for a guide . But ah ! those dreadful yells what soul can hear That owns a carcass and not quake for fear ? Demons produce them doubtless , brazen - clawed , And fanged with ...
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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