“Comus and his midnight crew.”
Ode for Music http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=ocmu (1769), line 2
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“Grim-visaged comfortless Despair.”
St. 7
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
“When love could teach a monarch to be wise,
And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.”
Education and Government; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
St. 22
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
“The verse adorn again
Fierce War, and faithful Love,
And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest.”
Thomas Gray
The Bard
III. 3. lines 125-127
The Bard (1757)
St. 6
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
St. 2
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
"The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment", from Mr. Evans's Specimens of the Welch Poetry (1764)
“And weep the more, because I weep in vain.”
Sonnet, On the Death of Mr. West; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
St. 8
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
“Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.”
St. 20
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
“What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?”
St. 4
On the Death of a Favourite Cat http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odfc (1747)
“Still as they run they look behind,
They hear a voice in every wind,
And snatch a fearful joy.”
St. 4
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odec (written 1742–1750)
“No dolphin came, no Nereid stirred;
Nor cruel Tom, nor Susan heard.
A favourite has no friend!”
St. 6
On the Death of a Favourite Cat http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=odfc (1747)
“Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
St. 4
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
St. 11
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
The Epitaph, St. 2
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
St. 2
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
