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"Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering oer Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."
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Thomas GrayGrim-visaged comfortless Despair. — Thomas Gray
"Grim-visaged comfortless Despair."
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Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray was a self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being very popular. He was even offered the position of Poet Laureate in 1
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"Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tortring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!"
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"In glittering arms and glory dressed, High he rears his ruby crest. There the thundering strokes begin, There the press and there the din; Talymalfras rocky shore Echoing to the battles roar."
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"And weep the more, because I weep in vain."
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"What sorrow was, thou badst her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others woe."
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"Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding oer the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwinds sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey."
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