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• Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of gratitude.

  Thomas Gray

  Gratitude, Sweet, Fall

  "Ode for Music" l. 61 (1769)

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• E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

  Thomas Gray

  Nature, Fire, Voice

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.124

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• The still small voice of gratitude.

  Thomas Gray

  Gratitude, Voice, Stills

  "Ode for Music" l. 61 (1769)

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• Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think.

  Thomas Gray

  Thinking, Water, Rude

  1748 Ode on the Spring, l.11-16.

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• Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.

  Thomas Gray

  Views, Comfort, Hue

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.178

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• When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Love, Wise, Eye

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1836). “Poetical Works”, p.149

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• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Learning, Wish

  Thomas Gray, William Mason (1820). “The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason”, p.494

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• He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Eye, Angel

  'The Progress of Poesy' (1757) l. 95 (on Milton)

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• The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.

  Thomas Gray

  Air, Sky, Paradise

  Thomas Gray (2014). “Gray's English Poems”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

  Thomas Gray

  Soul, Noble, Poverty

  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.132

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• There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

  Thomas Gray

  Atheist, Religion, Helping

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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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• 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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• 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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• We frolic while 'tis May.

  Thomas Gray

  May

  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.11

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• In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Grief, Moving

  1757 The Bard. A Pindaric Ode, l.128-30.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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