10 Thomas Gray Quotes on Gray

Thomas Gray quotes on gray

4. O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.

5. Far from the sun and summer-gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid.

14. Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond today.

15. Grim-visaged comfortless Despair.

29. Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

34. To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes.

38. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

42. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.

45. Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.

48. There the thundering strokes begin, There the press, and there the din.