 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
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...vibrating phrase Burns preaches the same high doctrine of song the consoler as Gray's classic lines : — 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,... | |
 | Norman Hepple - English poetry - 1911 - 306 pages
...way: O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. 4 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,... | |
 | Arthur H. R. Fairchild - Poetry - 1912 - 294 pages
...train, 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 Swain Thomas - English poetry - 1913 - 104 pages
...warm cheek and rising bosom move 40 The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. II. 1. Strophe 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 t 45 The fond complaint,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love. 41 II THE STROPHE y hie, While wildly-loose their red locks fly; And, dancing round the bla Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate! 45 The fond complaint,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love. 41 n THE STROPHE Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate! 45 The fond complaint,... | |
 | 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,... | |
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