 Man's feeble race what ills await ! . Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint, my song, disprove, And justify the laws of Jove.  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 61by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Pate! The fond8 complaint, my song, disprove, And justify oric mothers bore; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown Muse ? Night and all her sickly dews, 60 Her spectres wan, and birds of boding cry, He gives to4 range... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate! 45 The fond complaint, my Song, disprove, And justify divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I l Muse? Night, and all her sickly dews, Her Spectres wan, and Birds of boding cry, 50 He gives to range... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1918 - 1116 pages
...way : O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. Man's feeble race what ills await, Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of fate I The fond complaint,... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 pages
...O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. II. i Man's feeble race what ills await: Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate ! The fond complaint,... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 488 pages
...soften, not to wound my heart. In The Progress of Poesy the same sense of everpresent sorrow appears: Man's feeble race what Ills await, Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate I In his Ode for... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - English literature - 1923 - 328 pages
...her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. EL— i. Man's feeble race what ills await ! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate ! The fond complaint,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. 41 ; Man's feeble race what ills await ! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate! The fond complaint,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 438 pages
...criticism. will best appear, by confronting it with the beautiful passage against which it is levelled : Man's feeble race what ills await, Labour, and penury, the racks of pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And death, sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...And death, sad refuge from the storms of fate ! The fond complaint, my song, disprove, And justify the laws of Jove. Say, has he giv'n in vain the heav'nly Muse ? Night, and all her sickly dews, Her spectres wan, and birds of boding cry, He gives to range... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. II. i y where he speaks of Priam's slaughter. If it live in your memory, begin Disease, and sorrow's weeping train, And death, sad refuge from the storms of fate! The fond complaint,... | |
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