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Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (1716-1771 / London / England)
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Gray's father was a scrivener while his mother and aunt kept a milliner's shop. He led a quiet, studious life in the main, training in law after his d .. more >>
18 poems of Thomas Gray
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  ''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:''
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet. The Progress of Poesy (l. 82-86). . . Gray's English Poems; Original and Translated from the Norse and the ...
 
  ''Her track, where'er the Goddess roves,
Glory pursue, and generous Shame,
Th' unconquerable Mind, and Freedom's holy flame.''
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet. The Progress of Poesy (l. 62-64). . . Gray's English Poems; Original and Translated from the Norse and the ...
 
  ''Now the rich stream of Music winds along
Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong,''
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet. The Progress of Poesy (l. 7-8). . . Gray's English Poems; Original and Translated from the Norse and the We...
 
  ''Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate:
Beneath the Good how far—but far above the Great.''
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet. The Progress of Poesy (l. 120-122). . . Gray's English Poems; Original and Translated from the Norse and th...
 
  ''O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move
The bloom of young desire and purple light of love.''
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet. repr. In Poetical Works, ed. J. Rogers (1953). The Progress of Poesy, pt. 1, sct. 3, l. 16-7 (written 1754, pub...
 
  ''He saw: but blasted with excess of light,
Closed his eyes in endless night.''
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet. The Progress of Poesy (l. 100-101). . . Gray's English Poems; Original and Translated from the Norse and th...
 
  ''Nor second He, that rode sublime
Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy
The secrets of the Abyss to spy:''
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet. The Progress of Poesy (l. 94-96). . . Gray's English Poems; Original and Translated from the Norse and the ...
 
  ''From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take:''
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet. The Progress of Poesy (l. 3-4). . . Gray's English Poems; Original and Translated from the Norse and the We...
 
  ''Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.''
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet. "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," st. 4.
 
  ''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.''
Thomas Gray (1716-1771), British poet. repr. In Poetical Works, ed. J. Rogers (1953). Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 8 (1751).
 

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