Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; / Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
What female heart can gold despise? / What cat's averse to fish? Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, / The few, whom genius gave to shine / Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
He passed the flaming bounds of space and time: / The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, / Where angels tremble while they gaze, / He saw; but blasted with excess of light, / Closed his eyes in endless night. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, / Beneath the good how far - but far above the great. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
Th' applause of listening senates to command, / The threats of pain and ruin to despise,/ To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, / The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0
Owls would have hooted in St Peter's choir,/ And foxes stunk and littered in St Paul's. Thomas Gray English Poet More Thomas Gray Quotes 0