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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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Thomas GrayHark, his hands the lyre explore! — Thomas Gray
"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 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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"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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"Where his glowing eye−balls turn, Thousand banners round him burn. Where he points his purple spear, Hasty, hasty Rout is there, Marking with indignant eye Fear to stop and shame to fly. There Confusion, Terrors child, Conflict fierce and Ruin wild, Agony that pants for breath, Despair and honourable Death."
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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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