...fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different...little loves the birds complain ; I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain. EPITAPH ON MRS. JANE CLERKE. Lo!...

...prose even more widely than the lines which either precede or follow, in the position of the words. " A. different object do these eyes require ; My lonely...mine ; A.nd in my breast the imperfect joys expire" But were it otherwise, what would this prove, but a truth, of which no man ever doubted ? — videlicet,...

...fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish mtlts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet morning smiles the busy race...

...Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire! The birds in vain their amorous descant join; A different object do these eyes require: My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas! for other notes repine, And in my breast...

...lines, which either precede or follow, in the position of the words. i Ji " A different object do thete eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breaft the imperfect joyt expire" * T * But were it otherwise, what would this prove, but a truth,...

...descant join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine 5 A different object do these eyes require : My lonely...mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. V. 9. " Primosque et extremes metendo slravit humum, sine clade victor." Hor. Od. iv. 14, 31. V. 1....

...Alas ! what are all these joys to the soul, so long as deeper needs deprive us of their enjoyment ? ' A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my heart the imperfect joys expire.' — GKAY. "All sacrifices would be to us as steps to bliss, and renunciation...

...golden fire; The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas! for other notes repine, A different...little loves the birds complain: I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain. The treatment of grief is highly...

...prose even more widely, than the lines which either precede or follow, in the position of the words. A different object do these eyes require; My lonely...mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. But were it otherwise, what would this prove, but a truth, of which no man ever doubted? Videlicet,...

...regularity. The sonnet consists of three units, two of six lines each flanking the central distich: "My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; / And in my breast the imperfect joys expire." This stasis is the outward evidence of Gray's declared emotional paralysis; the sonnet is constructed...