Elegy Written in Country Churchyard and Other PoemsRobert Carter & Brothers, 1853 - 186 Seiten |
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... shade , " the " wood now smiling in scorn , ' there described , are the same as form the picturesque features of the landscape . Besides this , there are expressions in the poem so minutely accurate as descriptive of the objects and ...
... shade , " the " wood now smiling in scorn , ' there described , are the same as form the picturesque features of the landscape . Besides this , there are expressions in the poem so minutely accurate as descriptive of the objects and ...
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Thomas Gray. 71 Beneath those rugged elms , that yew - tree's shade , Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep . The swallow twittering from the straw - built shed ,. Each in his narrow ...
Thomas Gray. 71 Beneath those rugged elms , that yew - tree's shade , Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap , The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep . The swallow twittering from the straw - built shed ,. Each in his narrow ...
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... d fragrance fling . Where'er the oaks thick branches stretch A broader browner shade , Where'er the rude and moss - grown beech O'ercanopies the glade , Beside some water's rushy brink With me the muse shall ON THE SPRING •
... d fragrance fling . Where'er the oaks thick branches stretch A broader browner shade , Where'er the rude and moss - grown beech O'ercanopies the glade , Beside some water's rushy brink With me the muse shall ON THE SPRING •
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... shade ; And ye , that from the stately brow MENANDER . Of Windsor's heights the ' expanse below Of grove , of lawn , of mead survey , Whose turf , whose shade , whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver - winding way ...
... shade ; And ye , that from the stately brow MENANDER . Of Windsor's heights the ' expanse below Of grove , of lawn , of mead survey , Whose turf , whose shade , whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver - winding way ...
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Thomas Gray. Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! Ah , fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd , A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As waving fresh their ...
Thomas Gray. Ah , happy hills ! ah , pleasing shade ! Ah , fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd , A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As waving fresh their ...
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Seite 97 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...
Seite 93 - Ye distant spires, ye antique towers That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade ; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th...
Seite 104 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Seite 109 - 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.
Seite 110 - And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Seite 110 - Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace!
Seite 184 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Seite 99 - DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitiet} and alone.
Seite 118 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Seite 96 - 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 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!