 | Nature in literature - 1866 - 132 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 GRAY. MAY. How shall I meet thee, Summer, wont to fill My heart with gladness, when thy pleasant tide... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1866 - 360 pages
...reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, v No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. so Gray, in a letter to H. Walpole, says : (see Walpole's Works, rol. vp 395.) " I send you a bit of... | |
 | Nature in literature - 1867 - 148 pages
...rest. Mcthinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist ! and what art thoa ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets,...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... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, 45 No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 't is May. 50 GHAY. ODE ON A DISTANT PBOSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. YE distant spires, ye antique towers,... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 498 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. 28$ THE PROGRESS OF POESY A Pindaric Ode AWAKE, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling... | |
 | American poetry - 1910 - 498 pages
...to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist! and what art thouj A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering female meets,...youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone— ?<?p THE PROGRESS OF POESY A Pindaric Ode AWAKE, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling... | |
 | Classical literature - 1911 - 252 pages
...insects from the threshold preach. Gray's moralizing in this Ode is of the Horatian sort. The insects say On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 'tis May. Such thoughts, too, the spring suggests to Horace : O beati Sesti, vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat... | |
 | Percy Adams Hutchinson - English poetry - 1912 - 572 pages
...leave, 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 female...is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolick, while 'tis May." ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1912 - 502 pages
...rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? 5 A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets,...plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; 10 Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic while 't is May. T1. Gray CLXXXIII THE POPLAR... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - English poetry - 1913 - 104 pages
...kind reply: Poor moralist! and what art thou ? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering female meets, 45 No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage...youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD 1 THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd... | |
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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... 
