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Subject: GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADAPTATION BY T. GRAY RE-ADAPTED, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thyrsis, when we parted, swore
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)


DIVERSIONS OF THE RE-ECHO CLUB, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence, vain, deluding cows
Last Line: Than to be one, anyhow.
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Cows; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Keats, John (1795-1821); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


EPITAPH OF MR. GRAY - IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by WILLIAM MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: No more the grecian muse unrivalled reigns
Last Line: A pindar's rapture from the lyre of gray
Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)


FROM THE SCRAP BOOK OF THE EAST INDIA CO. MILITARY COLLEGE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The evening call proclaims the close of day
Last Line: In one small sphere 'cribb'd, cabin'd, and confin'd' %they sighed for action and a deathless name
Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)


IF GRAY HAD HAD TO WRITE HIS ELEGY IN CEMETERY OF SPOON RIVER ..., by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
Last Line: There is an end to even the worst career!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C.
Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950)


LINES WRITTEN IN A CITY COMPOSING-ROOM, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When thomas gray, the famous bard
Last Line: While gray was elegizing?
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Poetry & Poets


ODE - 'ON A DISTANT PROSPECT' OF MAKING A FORTUNE, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the 'rosy morn appearing'
Last Line: "died, t. Mivins; of disgust."
Subject(s): Ambition; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)


ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF CLAPHAM ACADEMY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah me! Those old familiar bounds!
Last Line: A sorry breaking-up!
Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)


ON GRAY'S ELEGY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
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


RESPONSE TO THOMAS GRAY BY HIS FAVOURITE CAT, SELIMA, by D. A. PRINCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's not my fault the vase's side
Last Line: Like off'ring me your favourite chair %I rest my case
Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


RETROGRESSION, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our daughters flower in vernal grace
Last Line: Trailing the folds of gorgeous woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700); Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Milton, John (1608-1674)


SKETCH OF HIS OWN CHARACTER, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
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)


THE BEADLE'S ANNUAL ADDRESS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
Last Line: John bugsby, number thirteen, tibbald's road.
Subject(s): Clergy; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


THE DESCENT OF TIMOTHY, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tim crawl'd on board; no phiz e'er sadder
Last Line: What, won't you go!—here, cesar, cesar.—
Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)


THOMAS GRAY, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Singer most melancholy, most austere
Last Line: And I am glad because thou wast afraid.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C.
Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)


TO MR. GRAY, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not that her blooms are mark'd with beauty's hue
Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Poetry And Poets


WITH ILLUSTRATION TO GRAY'S POEMS, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around the springs of gray my wild root weaves
Last Line: Traveller repose & dream among my leaves,
Subject(s): Bible; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Mythology