...smiling mornings shine, " And redtfning Phoebus lifts his golden fire: " The birds in vain their am'rous descant join, •' Or cheerful fields resume their...anguish melts no heart but mine, " And in my breast th' imperfect joys expire; " Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, " And new-born pleasure brings...

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

...Verbanequit; miser atque magis fleo quod fleo frusttaSONNET (BY MR. GRAY) ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. JN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds ia vain their amorous descant join ;. Or chearful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas...

...fall. SONNET* ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICH4RD WEST. JN vain to me the smiling Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus 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 object...

...Mathias, (a very able judge,) as the most perfect Sonnet, on the Petrarchan model, in our language. ' In vain to me, the smiling Mornings shine, And reddening...different object do these eyes require: My lonely anguish meets no Heart but mine ; And iu my breast the imperfect joys expire* Kr 1 Yet Morning smiles the busy...

...Gray, and says that " the only part of it, which is of any value, is the lines printed in Italics."* In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. * We repeat this sonnet with the less hesitation, because it does not appear in the usual editions...

...best and most original of his compositions. It was written on the death of his friend Richard West. These ears alas ! for other notes repine, A different...no heart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joyt expire! Yet morning smiles tbe busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men;...

...die? l-'or these I feel : — and feel that they are LOVE. 2. ex. GRAY. ON THE DEATH OP WEST. ELEGIAC. IN vain to me, the smiling Mornings shine And reddening...Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The Birds in vain their am'orons descant join ; Or cheerful Fields resume their sreen attire ; These ears, alas, for other...

...was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction. In rain to me the smiling mornings shine. And reddening Phoebus...alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object da these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys...

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