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The knell of parting day - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

The lowing herds wind slowly - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Where the beetle wheels his droning flight - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

The harvest to their sickle yield - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Once pregnant with celestial fire - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Rich with the spoils of time - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Many a gem of purest ray - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Dark unfathomed caves of ocean - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Waste its sweetness on the desert air - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

The little tyrant of his fields - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

The applause of listening senates - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

And shut the gates of mercy - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Incense kindled at the Muse's flame - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

The passing tribute of a sigh - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

By lonely Contemplation led - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Some kindred spirit shall inquire - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

With dirges due in sad array - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Fair Science frowned not - Thomas Gray "The Epitaph"

And Melancholy marked him - Thomas Gray "The Epitaph"

In trembling hope repose - Thomas Gray "The Epitaph"

Reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"

Their amorous descant join - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"

For other notes repine - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"

Melts no heart but mine - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"

And give to rapture all thy trembling - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Now the rich stream of music winds - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

And dropped his thirsty lance - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Perching on the sceptred hand - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Quenched in dark clouds of slumber - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Brisk notes in cadence beating - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Their Queen's approach declare - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Refuge from the storms of fate - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

And justify the laws of Jove - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

In climes beyond the solar road - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

In loose numbers wildly sweet - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

In lingering labyrinths creep - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Your tuneful echoes languish - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Unveil her awful face - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Can unlock the gates of joy - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

With necks in thunder clothed - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Sailing with supreme dominion - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Through the azure deep of air - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Unborrowed of the sun - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

The limits of a vulgar fate - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"


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