Elegia di Tommaso Gray sopra un cimitero di campagna

by Thomas Gray (1716–1771) Italian

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ELEGIA INGLESE

DEL SIGNOR

TOMMASO GRAY

SOPRA UN CIMITERO DI CAMPAGNA

TRASPORTATA

IN VERSO ITALIANO

DALL’

A. M. C.

IN PADOVA CIↃIↃCCLXXII.

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NELLA STAMPERIA DI GIUSEPPE COMINO.

Con Licenza de’ Superiori.

Indice

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

The next with dirges due in sad array
Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him born.
Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, …
The Bard

A Pindaric Ode
I.
“RUIN seize thee, ruthless King! …
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard

The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way, …
The Progress of Poesy

awake, Æolian lyre, awake,
And give to rapture all thy trembling strings,
From Helicon's harmonious springs …