love.] For interesting conjectures as to causes that inspired the poem, see Gosse, Life of Gray, pp. Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, 'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn, 'There at the foot of yonder nodding beech. On the 10th of February, 1751, Gray received a letter from the editors of the ''Magazine of Magazines,'' asking permission to publish it. & therefore am obliged to desire you would make Dodsley print it immediately (wch may be done in less than a Week's time) from your Copy, but without my Name, in what Form is most convenient for him, but in his best Paper & Character. "First printed by Dodsley in 1751 (Q1). Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. "Genuine, natural; the ''in'' has not a negative force.". "And in our ashes glow [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. H.W. "to the field. "Arthur Johnston, Selected Poems of Gray and Collins (1967) p. 44, cites Swift's Thoughts on Various Subjects (Works (1735) vol i): 'There is in most people a reluctance and unwillingness to be forgotten. ii. G. could of course merely have shared common sources of inspiration with these poets and some of the echoes occur in the later part of the Elegy: but, considered as a whole and with the greatest caution, this evidence would certainly suggest that G. began the poem in 1746-47. The present text is underlined in the margin of CB.". 1898]. Thomson's panegyric of England's 'sons of glory' in Summer 1488-91, 1493, includes: 'a steady More, / Who, with a generous though mistaken zeal, / Withstood a brutal tyrant's useful rage; / Like Cato firm ... / A dauntless soul erect, who smiled on death.' The word is from French aile, a wing, and the s, says Skeat, is a meaningless insertion.". by.] 2. began writing his most celebrated poem has been the subject of frequent discussion and disagreement, and the scanty and unreliable nature of such evidence as there is makes it impossible to reach any definite conclusion. At just 22 years old, Amanda Gorman will be the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history. 29.6 useful] "underlined in Eton with homely [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. H.W. "the path leading (from the main road) to the church. 89-92), with the tiresome question of 'The Locality of the Churchyard'. "Gray himself quotes here in illustration: 92.1-5 Ev'n ... live] "And ... glow Pembroke and [...]" A.L. Hendrickson, 1966. . 9-12n below.". The first omitted stanza, commonly referred to as "the redbreast stanza" (after l. 116), appears in the Eton and Pembroke MSS of the poem. reign.] "In Table-talk, Guardian Newspaper of [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. "rude here means rustic, simple; he applies it to the beach, ''Spring,'' 13. 24.6 envied] "Gray happily decided upon 'envied,' [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. At 19 years old she wrote a poem, 'My Country', the second verse of which is perhaps the best known stanza in Australian poetry. ". "Why did Gray [in the [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. "Gray probably took this expression from Paradise Lost, III. In accordance with G.'s wishes, Dodsley prefixed to the Elegy a short 'Advertisement' written by Walpole: Title/Paratext] "The success of the Elegy [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. 1898]. . Finally, it is worth noting the authoritative opinion of the editors of Walpole's letters as to whether he wrote '12' or '72' and as to whether Mitford is likely to have mistranscribed the number: 'We believe [Walpole] wrote 12; HW's 1's and 7's are not at all similar, and it would have been unlike HW to count out the number of lines Gray sent him, or, if he had, to remember the total for a quarter of a century' (Walpole Correspondence xxviii 118 n 4). As we look upon her picture, Sweet memories we recall, Of a face so full of sunshine, And a smile for one and all. "---There was some precision required [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. Cf. 6.1-2 And all] "And now - Fraser MS." D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. also Dryden, Aeneid i 213-4: 'As when in Tumults rise th'ignoble Crowd, / Mad are their Motions, and their Tongues are loud', and xii 1359: ''tis mean ignoble Strife'; Dart, Westminster Abbey I viii (see ll. Hendrickson, 1966. 's thought [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. Starr/J.R. Website by . See A. Anderson, The Library, 5th series, xx (1965) 144-8, for a refutation ofStokes's argument for the importance of this text, which was probably not printed in fact until late 1753. 37.1-9 Nor ... fault,] "Dryden, Sigismonda and Guiscardo 490-2: [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. "Or   Fraser and Pembroke MSS. 6.2 all] "now E[ton College MS.]." 's Alcaic Ode 17-20 [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. thorn.'] Whibley, 1950 [1st ed. "Incense hallowd in   Eton, with kindled at written below.". The wearisome frequency of the rhyme 'join' with such words as 'combine,' 'sign,' 'line,' in Dryden, Pope, &c. establishes the pronunciation of 'join' as 'jine' over a long period up to the middle of the 18th century; in Dryden we have 'spoil' rhyming with 'guile' and 'awhile'; 'boil' rhyming with 'pile,' and in Pope, Odyssey, b. Title/Paratext] "Although nearly all the editors [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. 119.2 Science] "Knowledge or learning in general, [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. "'pines bow low / Their [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. "The Epitaph, which is not [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. "Cp. 41.2 storied] "J. William Broome, Paraphrase of [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. . "Cp. R. Lonsdale, 1969. written ORIGINALLY in a . Such inverted structure is fairly common in Gray's verse.". 1891]. Thomson goes on to mention in this passage (not expanded to this form until 1744) Hampden, l. 1515: 'Wise, strenuous, firm, of unsubmitting soul'; and Milton, ll. With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked. 1891]. See also Pope, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady 49-51, where the 'pious' acts are done by 'foreign hands'.". Classic Love. But G. also wanted examples of greatness which had proved dangerous to society (as opposed to the innocence of the villagers) and the Civil War, 100 years earlier, provided him with three convenient examples. He realizes how wrong they would have been for each other and how blessed he is to have the partner that he has. if you have Javascript installed, simply hover your mouse The classical or 'Augustan' restraint and balance which preserved him from such excesses is a strength which is manifested similarly in the balanced structure of the poem as a whole, as well as in the balancing effect of the basic quatrain unit. "This is the first of several passages which resemble John Dart's poem Westminster Abbey (1721), reprinted in his [2 vol.] Smyth, Greek Grammar, sec. told Walpole of the change, 11 Feb. 1751 (Corresp i 342).". 1926]. ''From William Chamberlayne, Pharonnida (London, 1659), Book iv, canto 5, p. 94: ''Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste the scent / Of odors in unhanted desarts. 119.2 Science] "knowledge in general." 23.5 lisp] "speak with childlike utterance." 1898]. 103-10) has made a cogent case for placing its first writing in 1746-7: it seems to be recalling phrases and passages in the verse of Akenside, Collins, the Wartons and others, published during 1743-7. "Wakefield quotes from Spenser's ''Shepherd's Kalendar'': - ''But to the root bent his sturdic stroak, / And made many wounds in the wast oak.'' 106.5-6 he would] "Would he. 925f.) (Rolfe.)". - Mason MS." E. Gosse, 1884. "This line has caused intermittent [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. "From the original manuscript, now [...]" J. Crofts, 1948 [1st ed. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the Bollingen Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems: 1962-2012, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. "Nowhere do beeches assume more 'fantastic' forms than at Burnham.Luke compares Spenser, Ruines of Rome, stanza XXVIII, which combines Gray's scattered details, in the picture of an aged tree. 2, 42. "This stanza poetically answers the question put in the preceding one. - Egerton and [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. By 1763 twelve edns based on Dodsley's quarto had appeared. 54.1-7 The ... bear:] "Blackmore, Alfred. The heightened sensibility of the melancholy man ideally expresses itself in benevolence and other social virtues, rather than merely in solitary wandering, although that usually precedes it. The similarities to Joseph Warton's Ode to Evening [...] would support a date after 4 December 1746. The case for dating the beginning of the poem in the summer or autumn of 1746 is more elaborate but not perhaps much more definite. The same conclusion would have to be reached if the Elegy is considered in relation to the vogue for 'graveyard' poetry and prose which emerged in the early 1740s. Cp. "Thus in Fraser MS.:And at [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. Hark! Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight. thorn.'] This MS appears from its text to be later than that in the Commonplace Book. Hendrickson, 1966. "ancient   Eton; aged   Commonplace Book, with ancient deleted. 109.3 I] "We. "Tickell, On the Death of Mr Addison 81-2: 'There taught us how to live; and (oh! "And buried Ashes glow with Social Fires. 1891]. I. Another explanation is that "awaits" has been "attracted" into the singular by "all that wealth e'er gave", and that the four clauses in lines 33f. Cp. uses the conventional epithet ironically.". 8.1 And] "Or   Eton, Wharton, Commonplace [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. In 'The Inspector' No. "Correspondingly, in Homer, Virgil, Dante, the desiderium of the departed is for the light of the upper air.". Glebe is used in its primary sense from Lat. 1891]. reign.] H.W. Hendrickson, 1966. In the winter of 1749 Gray took it in hand again, at Cambridge, after the death of his aunt, Mary Antrobus. 103.1-3 'His ... length] "Cf. 1891]. they tell me, that an ingenious Poem, call'd Reflections in a Country-Churchyard, has been communicated to them, wch they are printing forthwith: that they are inform'd that the excellent Author of it is I by name, & that they beg not only his Indulgence, but the Honor of his Correspondence, &c: as I am not at all disposed to be either so indulgent, or so correspondent, as they desire; I have but one bad Way left to escape the Honour they would inflict upon me. 12.1-3 Molest ... ancient] "& pry into (over) Fraser [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. 115.4-7 (for ... read)] "Mr. Hales considers that these [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. G.'s Pindaric Odes of the 1750s were to show his continuing preoccupation with the subject of the function of poetry in society: for all his assertions of its value, the deliberate obscurity of the poems themselves betrays G.'s own conviction that poetry could not and perhaps should not any longer attempt to communicate with society as a whole. It has also seemed natural to some scholars to connect the Elegy with the death of Richard West in June 1742, but once again there is no evidence to confirm such a theory. 1898]. ": 1.1-3 The ... tolls] "The passage from Dante quoted [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. 1898]. breath?] G[ray]. 114.2 through] "thro with by written above, [...]" H.W. 1891]. The following bibliographical note is appended to the Pembroke MS. in Gray's writing: '1750. Based on this myth, the poem by Yeats describes the rape of Leda by Zeus in the form of a swan. Hendrickson, 1966. air.] Progress of Poetry, l. 2. "Mitford and others misprint this by placing these words in brackets; it does not mean to say that ''he gave to Mis'ry a tear,'' but he gave to Misery all he had, and that all was only a tear.". "The struggleings pangs, &c. Fraser MS. showing that Gray had some thought of making 'struggleing' a trisyllabic substantive, and changed his mind. 's Cromwell (l. 60) was originally Caesar. 36.2-5 paths ... lead] "path ... leads Foulis edition." / The World few know, / But to their Woe, / Our Crimes with our Experience rise; // And tender Sense / Is banish'd thence, / All maiden Nature's first Alarms; / What shock'd before, / Disgusts no more, / And what disgusted has its Charms.'". - Mason MS." E. Gosse, 1884. R. Lonsdale, 1969. Dr Bradshaw says ''woeful-wan means sad and pale, not 'wofully pale'.'' It is hard to understand why Gray's honour needed saving, or how by this expedient it was saved. Title/Paratext] "Whatever the date at which [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. 1898]. '['] Since the name was invented there have been elegies and elegies; but the residuum of truth in Johnson's remark is that this measure, because of its stateliness, at once betrays, by mere force of contrast, 'tenuity' of thought. 140/141.]". 1891]. The words of Gray himself to Mason recur to the mind 'all I can say is that your elegy should not end with the worst line in it.' Sad Love Poems. 47.4 rod] "Reins C[ommonplace] B[ook], E[ton College [...]" H.W. Such remedy Macaulay took when an unauthorized edition of his speeches, deformed by ridiculous blunders, was published by Vizetelly. 2400), and a third is at Pembroke College. Sweet Jesus, take this message, To our dear Grandma up above; Tell her how we miss her, And give her all our love. "Cp. Fraser MS.". "This probably refers to the humble couch on which they have spent the night; but it is meant to suggest the grave as well.". Hendrickson, 1966. Also see ''Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke,'' 11; and ''Shakespeare Verses,'' 8.". also Racine, Athalie Act [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. Hendrickson, 1966. That they were at one time exact is certain; and they were probably exact to Gray's time. See also T. Warton above ll. 17.1 - 18.7 The ... shed,] "For ever sleep; the breezy [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. The most famous poem by Emily Dickinson, Hope is the Thing with Feathers is one of the best known … G[ray]. thorn.'] 79.1 With] "Written above a deleted word, [...]" H.W. Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all. The Monthly Review iv 309, for Feb. 1751 (published at the end of the month), commented that 'This excellent little piece is so much read, and so much admired by every body, that to say more of it would be superfluous'. Whibley, 1950 [1st ed. 85.1-7 For ... prey,] "The For refers to what [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. "Cp. "Fate in Fraser MS. with lot written over it.". 96.2 kindred] "hidden Q[uarto]1 [a misprint]." Hendrickson, 1966. 41.2 storied] "inscribed or illustrated." It will be referred to in these notes, after Mr Rolfe, as the Fraser MS. Another copy was in Wharton's possession, and accordingly is in the Egerton MSS. "that   Fraser MS. with yon written over it.". 60.2 Cromwell] "Caesar   Eton." 1898]. "Wrote   Fraser MS. with Graved and carved written over it.". Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. Starr/J.R. 63.1-7 To ... land,] "See The Alliance of Education [...]" H.W. "Virgil, Aeneid iv 462-3: solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo / saepe queri et longas in fletum ducere voces (And alone on the house-tops will ill-boding song the owl would often complain, drawing out its lingering notes into a wail).". - Original MS. [Mason [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. #2 Hope is the Thing with Feathers. Spenser, Faerie Queene VI vii 39, 1, has 'And now she was uppon the weary way'.". Pope, Essay on Man iv 260: 'Tell (for You can) what is it to be wise?'". R. Lonsdale, 1969. Starr/J.R. Take one of the three stanzas of Hammond which Johnson derides: Title/Paratext] "Begun possibly in 1742, but [...]" J. Crofts, 1948 [1st ed. 85.1 - 86.6 For ... resigned,] "This may mean one of [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. H.W. ii. 1898]. " "Three MSS of the Elegy have survived. In that interval the MS was folded and stained and the paper itself deteriorated slightly. R. Lonsdale, 1969. Muir In Tarbolton Mill. Over Parton's six-decade career — starting at her Grand Ole Opry debut at age 13 — she has written more than 3,000 songs, recorded around 1,000, sold 100 million records, and scored 25 No. "written above Lands deleted in Commonplace Book.". 5.1 - 8.7 Now ... folds;] "These lines are very reminiscent [...]" J. Reeves, 1973. "Forgive, ye Proud, th' involuntary Fault, / If Memory to These no Trophies raise These lines are found in this form in all the three MSS. *** The New Year’s night comes in our house Makes … 24.1 Or] "Nor, Fraser MS." D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. 260. 55.1-9 Full ... unseen,] "Mitford gives these parallels (the [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. Bird-Understander. Hendrickson, 1966. Dr Bradshaw adds ''he may have noted the resemblence it bears to some expressions and lines in Collins' Dirge in Cymbeline, published 1747 [Footnote: ''Really 1746, but dated 1747. Title/Paratext] "First printed by Dodsley in [...]" H.W. "G[ray]. 2.8 lea,] "area of open grassland." Poole/L. 41.2 storied] "Milton perhaps first used the [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. "path . 1753: 89.1 - 90.7 On ... requires;] "Mitford cites Drayton, Moses's Birth [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. Hendrickson, 1966. Core of my heart, my country! Horace, Odes IV iii 1-2: Quem tu, Melpomene, semel / nascentem placido lumine videris (Whom thou, Melpomene, hast once beheld with favouring gaze at his natal hour).". 1891]. Short Love Poems. Gray has appended the following bibliographical note to the Pembroke MS.: - ''Published in Febry. flame.] Lucretius ii 412-3: ac musaea mele, per chordas organici quae / mobilibus digitis expergefacta figurant (melodies of music which harpers awaken and shape on the strings with nimble fingers); Cowley, The Resurrection 13: 'Begin the song and strike the living lyre'; Prior, Carmen Seculare 463: 'They strike the living Lyre'; Pope, Windsor Forest 279-80: 'where Cowley strung / His living Harp'.". H.W. "Decorated with carved work in patterns. Poole/L. Jasenka Arbanas. G[ray]. As is shown below, G[ray]. Starr/J.R. IV. "The 'thee' who relates the 'artless tale' is somewhat ambiguous. fires.] Writers on other aspects of the Elegy have so often adopted a dating merely to suit a particular argument that a full statement of the relevant considerations is perhaps still desirable. 1898]. Whether we refer the prefix 'a' to 'on' or to 'at' here, the secondary notion of 'motion towards' is easily attached to it; e.g. The three opening stanzas brilliantly setting the poem and the poet in the churchyard, are followed by four balanced sections each of four stanzas, dealing in turn with the lives of the humble villagers; by contrast, with the lives of the great; with the way in which the villagers are deprived of the opportunities of greatness; and by contrast, with the crimes inextricably involved in success as the 'thoughtless world' knows it, from which the villagers are protected. 90.7 requires;] "See Sonnet on West 6 [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. 57.2 village-Hampden,] "a champion of civil liberty [...]" J. Reeves, 1973. 6.2 all] "Now. "Henry VIII III ii 434-4: 'When I am forgotten, as I shall be, / And sleep in dull cold marble.'". 1891]. He therefore had it published (anonymously) on February 16, 1751, by the great London publisher, Dodsley.The Elegy leaped immediately into enormous popularity. G.'s lines have also been compared to Edward Phillips's Preface to Theatrum Poetarum (1675), in J. E. Spingarn, Critical Essays of the 17th Century (1908-9) ii 258 (and cp. the created world); and Par. The four 'rejected' stanzas do provide a perfectly coherent conclusion to the poem. "Cp. Amy L. Reed's The Background to Gray's Elegy (New York, 1924), investigates melancholy as a subject in earlier eighteenth-century poetry, but does not throw a great deal of light on the poem itself. Whibley, 1950 [1st ed. The following Poem [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. Alexander Huber, 2000. Sect. Mason says of this 'redbreast' stanza: 'Between this line [l. 116] and the Epitaph, Mr. Gray originally inserted a very beautiful stanza, which was printed in some of the first editions, but afterwards omitted; because he thought (and in my own opinion very justly) that it was too long a parenthesis in this place. 1.1-8 The ... day,] "This famous line is imitated [...]" J. Heath-Stubbs, 1981. 'If there were no comma after ''strife,'' the sense of this couplet would be precisely the opposite of what Gray intended.' G. himself uses the phrase serventque tenorem in his Latin Verses at Eton (p. 290). 1891]. Starr/J.R. The last two lines are strongly imaginative. 105.6 smiling] "frowning [a misprint] Q[uarto]1." Hendrickson, 1966. Adams was part of a progressive Christian congregation, South Place Chapel, that centered on human life and experience. Amanda Gorman, the nation's first-ever youth poet laureate, challenged Americans Wednesday to "leave behind a country better than the one … "That Gray was inclined to [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. 1926]. Macbeth, iii, 2: ''The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums.'' 85.6-7 a prey,] "given over to, the victim [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. "Knowledge or learning in general, described as 'fair' because conceived by G[ray]. 1898]. 1-92 in the 4th edn of a volume of Miscellaneous Pieces, apparently published in 1752 by R. Goadby and W. Owen, the publisher of the Magazine of Magazines. 92.1-5 Ev'n ... live] "And buried ashes glow with [...]" E. Gosse, 1884. 82.6 elegy] "Epitaph   Eton, Commonplace Book." thorn.'] 20 Thanksgiving Poems to Recite at Your Holiday Table. In the concluding 'rejected' stanzas of the first version of the Elegy the classical praise of retirement is successfully blended with the Christian consolation that this world is nothing but vanity and that comfort for the afflicted will come in the next, although G.'s handling of the religious theme is very restrained. Gray has noted also ''Omitted 1753.'' 22.7 care:] "Responsibility, (domestic) duties, imitating Latin [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. 7.1-4 Save ... beetle] "Cf. "Gray happily decided upon 'envied,' for 'coming' is a weak word; and 'doubtful' would have been ambiguous to any but a classical reader, - who alone would feel sure that the meaning was, it was uncertain to whom the privilege of the first kiss would fall. 62 'How chance the King comes with so small a train?' 127.1-3 (There ... alike] "His Frailties there   Eton." Cary's translation is as follows: -. Sometimes you find that perfect someone lives in another city, state, country or continent. Hendrickson, 1966. Starr/J.R. 29.6 useful] "Homely. are the subject after all. "Cf. (See l. 75 n.) See also E. Phillips, Preface to Theatrum Poetarum (see ll. Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust. 'Rich with the spoils of nature', Browne, Religio Medici I xiii; and 'For, rich with Spoils of many a conquer'd Land', Dryden, Palamon and Arcite ii 452.". 87.8 day,] "Equivalent to 'life', like Latin [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. also Horace, Epodes ii 39-40, 43-4: quod si pudica mulier in partem iuvet / domum atque dulces liberos ... / sacrum vestutis extruat lignis focum / lassi sub adventum viri (But if a modest wife shall do her part in tending home and children dear ... piling the sacred hearth with seasoned firewood against the coming of her weary husband). Lord, help us to share the love of God with everyone we encounter, to feed the hungry, … See also Ode to Adversity 25-32 (p. 72), where Melancholy is associated with Wisdom, Charity, Justice and Pity. Hendrickson, 1966. But in that he was clearly mistaken. "Reins Pembroke and Wharton MSS., but in the former MS. Rod is inserted in margin. cummings This is one of the most instantly recognizable love poems for a reason. 1891]. I’d like to take her in my arms, and show her the world and all its charms. Starr/J.R. Par. : 98.1-10 'Oft ... dawn] "Fairfax's Tasso XIV lxxix 4 [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. Its two senses in Latin are 'belonging to generation or birth' and 'belonging to enjoyment, jovial.' Starr/J.R. You want her heart to melt at the sound of your poetic words. The line means that Knowledge looked favorably upon him at his birth (a quasi-astrological figure).". It was reprinted in newspapers, magazines and miscellanies, and ran through eight editions by 1753. "Addison, Account of the Greatest English Poets 30-1: 'But when we look too near, the shades decay, / And all the pleasing landscape fades away'; and David Mallet, The Excursion (1728) i 235-7: '... th'aerial landscape fades. 117.1-9 Here ... earth] "''how glad would lay me [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. Whibley, 1950 [1st ed. 157). - Mason MS. After which, in that MS., follows this stanza: -. 110).". ". See also Gay, Shepherd's Week iii 19-22, 115-18, and J. Warton, Ode to Evening 2-4: 'Whose soft approach the weary woodman loves, / As homeward bent to kiss his prattling babes, / He jocund whistles through the twilight groves.' May the New Year bring love and joy You need to learn how to enjoy Each moment of this special life And leave behind your inner strife! acknowledged his debt to Dante, Purgatorio viii 5-6: se ode squilla di lontano, / che paia il giorno pianger che si muore (from afar he hears the chimes which seem to mourn for the dying day). Virgil, Georgics i 94: [...]" R. Lonsdale, 1969. In this form the Elegy is a well-constructed poem, in some ways more balanced and lucid than in its final version. "Now woful wan he dropped, as one forlorn. Whibley, 1950 [1st ed. The bower was the sleeping apartment for the lord and lady; while the hall was the living-room, the dining-room, and, for the retainers, the sleeping-room.". For some discussion see Notes and Queries clxxxiv (1943) 102-3, 174, 204, 237-8.". "'Edwards, the author of The Canons of Criticism, here added the two following stanzas, to supply what he deemed a defect in the poem' (Mitford): 61.1-7 The ... command,] "Cp. Lost ix 193-4: 'the humid Flowrs that breathd / Thir morning Incense'; and Pope, Messiah 24: 'With all the incence of the breathing Spring'.". It is a romantic moment where the heart thinks about people who care. "A common phrase: e.g. 43.4 provoke] "Awake. "Gray's manuscript included here the [...]" J. Heath-Stubbs, 1981. "The following stanza appears [after [...]" A.L. (Hales.)". 1926]. "This stanza poetically answers the [...]" W. Lyon Phelps, 1894. Translated from the Latin (1742) pp. He took the guise of a swan and raped her on the same night she slept with her husband. Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline, What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi' An Auld Man. Gray had probably in mind that under the yew-tree there is a tombstone with several words wrongly spelt and some letters ill-formed, and that even in the inscription which he composed for his aunt's tomb the word resurrection is spelt incorrectly by the unlettered stone-cutter.". flame.] The following Poem came into my hands by Accident, if the general Approbation with which this little Piece has spread, may be call'd by so slight a Term as Accident. sturdy stoke also occurs in Dryden's translation of the ''Georgics,'' iii. "Here again want of lucidity [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. air.] 34[)]; and ('to a Painted Lady' a poem doubtfully attributed to Donne), 'But case there be a difference in the mould' &c. (in case, probably).". Hands that ''might have held the plough'' would have some sense, for that work is strictly manual; the others only emblematically or pictorially so. 93.1 - 96.7 For ... fate,] "In Fraser MS. Gray thus [...]" D.C. Tovey, 1922 [1st ed. The poem was circulated in MS., and on the 10th of February 1751 Gray received a letter from the editor of the Magazine of Magazines, asking leave to publish it. ''See Cromwell damned to everlasting fame,'' Pope, Essay on Man, iv. published in 1755; but in editions of 1753 and 1768, for the text of which Gray has some responsibility, we have 'awaits,' as well as in every copy in his handwriting.". 44.5-6 dull cold] "These words occur together in [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1903 [1st ed. Hendrickson, 1966. 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