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" Phoebus lifts his 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 object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine... "
An excursion to Windsor, in July 1810. Also A sail down the river Medway ... - Page 378
by John Evans - 1817
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...WEST. IN vain to me the smiling Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The hirds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields...anguish melts no heart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...insipid. SONNET DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous...attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, 5 A different object do these eyes require : My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my...
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pages
...life." SONNET ON THE DEATH OF MR. WEST. IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous...anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 pages
...SONNET1" ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine. And redd'ning Phcebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous...anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings...
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Classical Examinations: Or, A Selection of University Scholarship ..., Volume 1

University of Cambridge - 1830 - 636 pages
...into Greek or Latin elegiac verses : In vain to me the smiling mornings shine And redd'ning Phœbus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant join ; The cheerful fields resume their green attire ; These ears alas for other notes repine, A different...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 240 pages
...GRAY. ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST. IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine. And reddening Phosbus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join ; : Or chearful fields resume their green attire : . These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volumes 1-2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 pages
...He then quotes Gray's sonnet — " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous...these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart bat mine, And in my breastthe imperfect joys expire ! Yet morning smiles, the busy race to cheer, And...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 368 pages
...smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amoroue descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green...alas ! for other notes repine; A different object da these eyes require ; My lonely anguish meltt no heart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joys...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

1836 - 558 pages
...following beautiful little sonnet: " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phcebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous...other notes repine: A different object do these eyes requtre j My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joys expire ; Yet...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1836 - 368 pages
...structure of his own poetic diction. ' In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phtebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous...for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyet require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
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