The Poetical Works of Thomas GrayE. H. Butler & Company, 1866 - 112 pages |
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... seen to glide , The Genii of the stream : Their scaly armour's Tyrian hue Through richest purple to the view Betray'd a golden gleam . The hapless nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first , and then a claw , With many an ardent wish ...
... seen to glide , The Genii of the stream : Their scaly armour's Tyrian hue Through richest purple to the view Betray'd a golden gleam . The hapless nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first , and then a claw , With many an ardent wish ...
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... seen Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace , ) Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To ...
... seen Full many a sprightly race , Disporting on thy margent green , The paths of pleasure trace , ) Who foremost now delight to cleave , With pliant arm , thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthral ? What idle progeny succeed To ...
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Thomas Gray. Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A grisly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : This racks the joints , this fires the veins , That every labouring sinew strains , Those in the ...
Thomas Gray. Lo ! in the vale of years beneath A grisly troop are seen , The painful family of Death , More hideous than their queen : This racks the joints , this fires the veins , That every labouring sinew strains , Those in the ...
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... seen ) , With thundering voice , and threatening mien , With screaming Horror's funeral cry , Despair , and fell Disease , and ghastly Poverty : Thy form benign , oh Goddess , wear , Thy milder influence impart , Thy philosophic train ...
... seen ) , With thundering voice , and threatening mien , With screaming Horror's funeral cry , Despair , and fell Disease , and ghastly Poverty : Thy form benign , oh Goddess , wear , Thy milder influence impart , Thy philosophic train ...
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... Thee the voice , the dance , obey , Temper'd to thy warbled lay . O'er Idalia's velvet - green The rosy - crowned Loves are seen On Cytherea's day : With antic Sport , and blue - eyed Pleasures , THE PROGRESS OF POES Y. 21 .
... Thee the voice , the dance , obey , Temper'd to thy warbled lay . O'er Idalia's velvet - green The rosy - crowned Loves are seen On Cytherea's day : With antic Sport , and blue - eyed Pleasures , THE PROGRESS OF POES Y. 21 .
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POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS GRAY Thomas 1716-1771 Gray,Henry 1808-1834 Reed,C. W. (Charles Walter) 1817 Radcliffe No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 57 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind...
Page 12 - Gazed on the lake below. Her conscious tail her joy declared : The fair round face, the snowy beard, The velvet of her paws, Her coat that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes — She saw ; and purr'd applause.
Page 52 - How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Awaits alike th' inevitable hour : — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 29 - Mighty victor, mighty lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies ! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies! Is the sable warrior fled ? Thy son is gone; he rests among the dead. The swarm that in thy noon-tide beam were born ? Gone to salute the rising morn.
Page 27 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...
Page 28 - Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep : they do not sleep ! On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit; they linger yet Avengers of their native land : With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.
Page 16 - Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims play ; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day : Yet see how all around...
Page 24 - 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, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 26 - Such were the sounds that o'er the crested pride Of the first Edward scatter'd wild dismay, As down the steep of Snowdon's shaggy side He wound with toilsome march his long array: Stout Glo'ster stood aghast in speechless trance; 'To arms!
Page 52 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.