5 Thomas Gray Quotes on Sadness

Thomas Gray quotes on sadness

2. What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.

16. To each his suff'rings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain; Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

19. No dolphin came, no Nereid stirred; Nor cruel Tom, nor Susan heard. A favourite has no friend!

25. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.

40. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth. And Melancholy marked him for her own.