Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray
Thomas Graywas an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge University. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 December 1716
arm delight foremost thy
Who foremost now delight to cleave / With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
darling far green lap sun thy
Far from the sun and summer-gale, / In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid.
air confusion crimson idle mock ruin ruthless seize though thy
Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! / Confusion on thy banners wait; / Though fanned by Conquest's crimson wing, / They mock the air with idle state.
aisle anthem note vault
Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault / The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
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He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
method
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
ball mark trust
Mark and I get pretty competitive sometimes. But I like to just get the ball to my receivers and let them make the plays. I trust them.
foxes littered stunk
Owls would have hooted in St Peter's choir,/ And foxes stunk and littered in St Paul's.
eyes lawful nor tempts
Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes / And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; / Nor all that glisters, gold.
attic pours responsive
The Attic warbler pours her throat, / Responsive to the cuckoo's note.
breath collected melting small sweet sweeter treasures voice
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,The bee's collected treasures sweet, Sweet music's melting full, but sweeter yet. The still small voice of gratitude.
human passions triumphs
Their tears, their little triumphs o'er, / Their human passions now no more.
bombs defeated disliked dropped guy time truman war whether
The war was over, ... They were defeated by the time he dropped those bombs -- I think he wanted to know whether they would work. And I think Truman was the kind of guy when he disliked you, he disliked you with a passion.
averse female gold heart
What female heart can gold despise? / What cat's averse to fish?