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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON GRAY'S ELEGY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB First Line: Go back beyond the electric light Last Line: And you have gray and gray's good age. Subject(s): Country Life; England; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Memory; English | |||
Go back beyond the electric light, The radio and the works of steam, And look on England dark at night Or lit but by a taper's gleam. Go back the last two hundred years And there another nation find, Of primal toils practitioners, And men of self-supporting mind. The sturdy ploughman leading home At eve his horses to the stall; The woodman ill content to roam To towns where never beechunts fall; The shepherd happy with his sheep, The miller busy with his grain, The learned Doctor bent to keep One house and glebe as his domain. Add homely fare and mantling ale; And classic thought on printed page, Nor dream that these shall ever fail— And you have Gray and Gray's good age. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NINETEEN FORTY by NORMAN DUBIE GHOSTS IN ENGLAND by ROBINSON JEFFERS STAYING UP FOR ENGLAND by LIAM RECTOR STONE AND FLOWER by KENNETH REXROTH THE HANGED MAN by KENNETH REXROTH ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT by JOHN UPDIKE AMONG THE LAKES by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB AN EPITAPH (AFTER THE GREEK EPIGRAMS) by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB |
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