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SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ.

THIS EDITION OF

GRAY

IS INSCRIBED

WITH FEELINGS OF RESPECT AND ESTEEM

BY THE EDITOR.

SONNE T.

A LONELY Man he was, from whom these lays
Flow'd in his cloister'd musings: He in scorn
Held them, the unfeeling multitude, who born
For deeds of nobler purpose, their ripe days
Waste amidst fraudful industry, to raise
Inglorious wealth. - But He, life's studious morn
Gave to the Muse, so best might he adorn
His thoughtful brow with never-dying bays.
And well the Muse repaid him. She hath given
An unsubstantial world of richer fee;
High thoughts, unchanging visions, that the leaven
Of earth partake not; Rich then must he be,
Who of this cloudless world, this mortal heaven,
Possesseth in his right the Sovereignty.

CONTENTS.

MEMOIR OF GRAY, by the Rev. J. Mitford

Appendix to the Memoir

POEMS.

Ode. On the Spring

Ode. On the Death of a favourite Cat, drowned in a Tub

of Gold Fishes

Ode. On a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Hymn to Adversity

The Progress of Poesy

The Bard

Ode for Music

The Fatal Sisters

The Vegtam's Kivitha; or, the Descent of Odin

The Triumphs of Owen

The Death of Hoel

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Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West.

Epitaph on Mrs. Jane Clerke

Epitaph on Sir William Williams

Elegy written in a Country Churchyard

A Long Story

POSTHUMOUS POEMS AND FRAGMENTS.

Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude

Translation of a Passage from Statius

The Fragment of a Tragedy, on the Subject of the Death

of Agrippina

Hymn to Ignorance

The Alliance of Education and Government

Stanzas to Mr. Bentley

Sketch of his own Character

Amatory Lines .

Song

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Tophet. An Epigram

Impromptu, on the Seat of a deceased Nobleman

The Candidate .

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