Thomas Gray Quotes About Rings

Quotes about: Rings

• To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.

  Thomas Gray

  Happiness, Wise, Pain

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

• For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

  Thomas Gray

  Anxiety, Dumb, Cheerful

  'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751) l. 85

• Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

  Thomas Gray

  Daughter, Power, Iron

  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.20

• 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”

• 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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