This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of joy ; Of horror that... Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 46by Thomas Gray - 1775 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...flame. poetical characters of Shakspearc, Milton, and Dryden : Far from the sun and summer gale, Ju A d strayed, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretched forth his... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray 'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretch'd forth... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. III. Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her aweful face : the dauntless child Stretch'd forth... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...lost, They sought, ob Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. III. Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her aweful face : the dauntless child Stretch'd forth... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...spirit lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : The dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1841 - 312 pages
... 4 ~ PLAYS SHAKSPEARE. VOL. XIII. Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretch'd forth its... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...lost, They sought, oh Albion ! next thy sea-encircled coast. m. 1. Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretch' d forth... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1842 - 340 pages
...LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. l842. 0 X [-' 0 RD Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretch'd forth its... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...well-known lines of Gray are amongst his happiest efforts : — " Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face : the dauntless child Stretch'd forth his... | |
| English literature - 1843 - 234 pages
...for the Latin plains. Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant power, Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was nature's* darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon strayed: To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face; the dauntless child Stretched forth his... | |
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