 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 't is May. T. Gray CXLIII THE POPLAR FIELD r I "' HE poplars are fell'd, farewell to the shade -L And... | |
 | Golden gleanings - 1863 - 342 pages
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply : Poor Moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 't is Mav. Alexander Pope. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL. V1TAL spark of heavenly flame : Quit, oh... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly I Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 't is May. T. Gray CXLIII THE POPLAR FIELD '"T^HE poplars are fell'd, farewell to the shade J- And... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 pages
...fweets, No painted plumage to difplay : On hafty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy fun is fet, thy fpring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES.' *WAS on a lofty vafe's fide, Where China's gayeft art had dyed The azure flowers,... | |
 | Nature in literature - 1864 - 142 pages
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply ; Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. GHAT. MAY. How shall I meet thee, Summer, wont to fill My heart with gladness, when thy pleasant tide... | |
 | American poetry - 1865 - 144 pages
...dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply -. Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May GKAT. MAY. How shall I meet thee, Summer, wont to fill My heart with gladness, when thy pleasant tide... | |
 | Henry Drury - English poetry - 1865 - 424 pages
...sportive kind reply ; Poor moralist ! and what art thou 1 A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glitt' ring female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets,...set, thy spring is gone : We frolic while 'tis May. GRAY. 281 Dsedala funduntur flores examina circum, Lœtaque melliferam depopulantur humum: Aliger hic... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 152 pages
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. ODE II. ON TTTE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT. DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES. • 'TWAS on a lofty vase's... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 pages
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May. ODE II. ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes. 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 150 pages
...in dust to rest. Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering...thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. ODE II. ON THE DEATH OP A FAVOURITE CAT. DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES. 'TWAS on a lofty vase's side,... | |
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But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest, Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist... 
