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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: gray, thomas Matches Found: 55 Gray, Thomas Poet's Biography 55 poems available by this author A COUPLET BY MR. GRAY Poem Text First Line: When you rise from your dinner as light as before Last Line: Tis a sign you have eat just enough and no more. Subject(s): Food & Eating A LONG STORY Poem Text First Line: In britain's isle, no matter where Last Line: And keep my lady from her rubbers. AGRIPPINA; A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDY Poem Text First Line: Tis well, begone! Your errand is perform'd Last Line: Whether she fear'd, or wish'd to be pursued. AND THIS UPON ON HIS LADY Poem Text First Line: Here lies mrs. Keene the bishop of chester Last Line: She had a bad face which did sadly molest her. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Keene, Edward. Bishop Of Chester BARD: 1. 2 First Line: On a rock, whose haughty brow Last Line: Vocal no more, since cambria's fatal day, %to high-born hoel's harp, or soft llewellyn's lay BARD: 1. 3 First Line: Cold is cadwallo's tongue Last Line: And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line BARD: 2. 2 First Line: Mighty victor, mighty lord Last Line: That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey BARD: 2. 3 First Line: Fill high the sparkling bowl Last Line: Stamp we our vengeance deep, and ratify his doom BARD: 3. 1 First Line: Edward, lo! To sudden fate Last Line: All hail, ye genuine kings, britannia's issue, hail BARD: 3. 2 First Line: Girt with many a baron bold Last Line: Waves in the eye of heaven her many-coloured wings BARD: 3. 3 First Line: The verse adorn again Last Line: Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night COUPLET ABOUT BIRDS Poem Text First Line: There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Last Line: Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. Subject(s): Birds ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD Poem Text First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day Last Line: The bosom of his father and his god. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Courage; Death; England; Faith; Graves; Love; Mourning; Graveyards; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement EPITAPH ON A CHILD Poem Text First Line: Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies Last Line: Now let him sleep in peace his night of death. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPITAPH ON MRS. JANE CLARKE; DIED 1757, AGED 31 Poem Text First Line: Lo! Where this silent marble weeps Last Line: With life, with memory, and with love. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON Poem Text First Line: Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die Last Line: And bids the pure in heart behold their god. Subject(s): Death; Mason, William (1724-1797); Dead, The EPITAPH ON SIR WILLIAM PEERE WILLIAMS, CAPTAIN IN BURGOGYNE'S DRAGOONS Poem Text First Line: Here, foremost in the dang'rous paths of fame Last Line: Where melancholy friendship bends and weeps. Subject(s): Consolation EXTEMPORE BY MR. GRAY ON DR. KEENE Poem Text First Line: The bishop of chester / though wiser than nestor Last Line: If you scratch him will fester. FAREWELL TO FIESOLE First Line: O fiesole, hilltop Last Line: Cypresses growing before it, and rooftops piled upon rooftops Subject(s): Florence, Italy HYMN TO ADVERSITY Poem Text First Line: Daughter of jove, relentless power Last Line: What others are, to feel, and know myself a man. Subject(s): Adversity HYMN TO IGNORANCE; A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Hail, horrors, hail! Ye ever gloomy bowers Last Line: ... A team of harness'd monarchs bend Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity IMPROMPTU BY MR. GRAY GOING OUT OF RABY CASTLE Poem Text First Line: Here lives harry vane Last Line: Very good claret and fine champaign INVITATION TO MASON Poem Text First Line: Prim hurd attends your call, & palgrave proud Last Line: And balguy with a bishop in his belly! Subject(s): Mason, William (1724-1797) LINES ON DR. ROBERT SMITH Poem Text First Line: Do you ask why old focus silvanus defies Last Line: But because he has writ about seeing. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Chestnut Trees LINES SPOKEN BY THE GHOST OF JOHN DENNIS AT THE DEVIL TAVERN Poem Text First Line: From purling streams and the elysian scene Last Line: And alexander wears a ramilie. ODE FOR MUSIC Poem Text First Line: Hence, avaunt! ('tis holy ground) Last Line: "and gilds the horrors of the deep" Subject(s): Fitzroy, Augustus. 3d Duke Of Grafton; Music & Musicians ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE Poem Text First Line: Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, / that crown the watery glade Last Line: Tis folly to be wise! Variant Title(s): On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College Subject(s): England; Eton College; Youth; English ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB Poem Text First Line: Twas on a lofty vase's side Last Line: Nor all, that glisters, gold. Variant Title(s): Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes;gray's Elegy On Horace Walpole's Cat;on The Death Of A Favourite Cat;on A Favorite Cat Drowned In A Tub Of Goldfishes Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Death - Animals; Goldfish; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE Poem Text First Line: Now the golden morn aloft Last Line: To him are opening paradise. Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Nature ODE ON THE SPRING Poem Text First Line: Lo! Where the rosy-bosomed hours Last Line: We frolic while 't is may. Variant Title(s): On The Spring;spring Subject(s): Nature; Spring ON LORD HOLLAND'S SEAT NEAR MARGATE, KENT Poem Text First Line: Old and abandoned by each venal friend Last Line: And foxes stunk and litter'd in s. Pauls. Variant Title(s): Impromptu, On Lord Holland's Seat At Kingsgate Subject(s): Fox, Henry. 1st Baron Holland. (1705-74); Hate ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST Poem Text First Line: In vain to me the smiling mornings shine Last Line: And weep the more, because I weep in vain. Variant Title(s): Sonnet On The Death Of Richard West;on The Death Of Mr.richard West Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; West, Richard (1716-1742); Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ONE DAY THE BISHOP OFFERED TO GIVE A GENTLEMAN A GOOSE ... Poem Text First Line: Here lies edmund keene lord bishop of chester Last Line: And this upon his lady-- Subject(s): Epitaphs; Geese; Keene, Edward. Bishop Of Chester PARODY ON AN EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff Last Line: At broom, pendragon, appleby & brough. PINDARIC ODE First Line: Woods that wave o'er delphi's steep SATIRE ON THE HEADS OF HOUSES Poem Text First Line: O cambridge, attend Last Line: We say nothing at all. Subject(s): Cambridge University SKETCH OF HIS OWN CHARACTER Poem Text First Line: Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune Last Line: But left church and state to charles townshend and squire. Variant Title(s): Gray On Himself Subject(s): Character; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) SONG (1) Poem Text First Line: Midst beauty and pleasure's gay triumphs, to languish Last Line: They smile, but reply not. Sure delia will tell me! Subject(s): Love SONG (2) Poem Text First Line: Thyrsis when we parted swore Last Line: Spare the honour of my love. Subject(s): Love SONG TO AN OLD AIR First Line: Thyrsis, when he left me, swore SUPREME DOMINATION First Line: Tho' he inherit %nor the pride, nor ample pinion Last Line: Thro' the azure deep of air THE ALLIANCE OF EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT; A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: As sickly plants betray a niggard earth Last Line: That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide. Subject(s): Education; Government THE BARD; A PINDARIC ODE Poem Text First Line: Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Last Line: Night. Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE CANDIDATE Poem Text First Line: When sly jemmy twitcher had smugg'd up his face Last Line: He's christian enough, that repents, and that -------. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Elections; Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Twitcher, Jemmy THE CURSE UPON EDWARD Poem Text First Line: Weave the warp, and weave the woof Last Line: (the web is wove. The work is done.) Variant Title(s): The Bard: 2.1 Subject(s): Edward V, King Of England (1470-1483); Weaving & Weavers THE DESCENT OF ODIN; AN ODE Poem Text First Line: Uprose the king of men with speed Last Line: Sinks the fabric of the world. Variant Title(s): The Runic Rhyme Subject(s): Mythology - Norse THE FATAL SISTERS Poem Text First Line: Now the storm begins to lower Last Line: Hurry, hurry to the field. Variant Title(s): An Ode From The Norse Tongue Subject(s): Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Norse THE PROGRESS OF POESY; A PINDARIC ODE Poem Text First Line: Awake, aeolian lyre, awake Last Line: Beneath the good how far--but far above the great. Subject(s): Dramatists; Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN: A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Owen's praise demands my song Last Line: Despair and honourable death. Subject(s): Owain Gwynedd, King Of North Wales; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO RICHARD BENTLEY Poem Text First Line: In silent gaze the tuneful choir among Last Line: A sigh of soft reflection. Variant Title(s): Stanzas To Mr. Bentley Subject(s): Bentley, Richard (1662-1742); Books; Reading TOPHET; AN EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Such tophet was; so looked the grinning fiend Last Line: And satan's self had thoughts of taking orders. Subject(s): Etough, Henry TRANSLATION FROM DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO 33 First Line: Thro' a small crevice opening, what scant light Last Line: The fourth, what sorrow could not, famine did Subject(s): Florence, Italy VALKYRIOR First Line: Weave the crimson web of war WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS First Line: To each his sufferings: all are men Subject(s): Courage WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO MRS. ANNE, REGULAR SERVANT Poem Text First Line: A moment's patience, gentle mistress anne Last Line: For glorious puddings, & immortal pies. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists |
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