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• Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

  Thomas Gray

  Fancy, Breathe, Rings

  Thomas Gray (1859). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray”

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• Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.

  Thomas Gray

  Flames, Track, Mind

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.38

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• The applause of list'ning 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.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Eye, Land

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.116

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• Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.

  Thomas Gray

  Solitude, Sorrow, Form

  Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1814). “The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.64

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• But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

  Thomas Gray

  Time, Eye, Soul

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

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• The insect-youth are on the wing,
  Eager to taste the honied spring,
  And float amid the liquid noon!

  Thomas Gray

  Spring, Wings, Taste

  1748 Ode on the Spring, l.25-30.

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• Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Childhood, Innocence

  William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver Goldsmith”

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• 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!

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Pain, Fate

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.28

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• The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Sky, Long

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• Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,
  Less pleasing when possest;
  The tear forgot as soon as shed,
  The sunshine of the breast.

  Thomas Gray

  Hope, Sunshine, Gay

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.16

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• The hues of bliss more brightly glow,
  Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe.

  Thomas Gray

  Hue, Woe, Bliss

  Thomas Gray, Thomas PARK (F.S.A.) (1808). “The poetical works of Thomas Gray, etc. With a separate titlepage bearing the imprint of John Sharpe, London, dated 1805”, p.62

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• To contemplation's sober eye,
  Such is the race of man;
  And they that creep, and they that fly,
  Shall end where they began,
  Alike the busy and the gay,
  But flutter through life's little day.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Gay, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.251

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• Rich with the spoils of time.

  Thomas Gray

  Time, Rich, Spoil

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

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• Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

  Thomas Gray

  Land, Charity, Philanthropy

  Thomas Gray (1828). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.64

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• The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

  Thomas Gray

  Spring, Cuckoos, Harmony

  'Ode on the Spring' (1748) l. 5

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• To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Men, Suffering

  'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 91

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• England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.

  Thomas Gray

  Air, Wind, Sea

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