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THE NEW YORK | PUBLIC LIBRARY
ASTOR, LENOX AND HLDEN FOUNDATIO04
THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
THOMAS GRAY.
LONDON : PRINTED FOR JOHN SHARPE,
AND OTHER PROPRIETORS; BY C. AND C, WHITTINGHAM, CHISWICK.
M DCCC XXVI.
MD
CONTENTS.
ODES.
Page
On the Spring ..................
On the Death of a favourite Cat....... ...............
On a distant Prospect of Eton College.............
To Adversity ..............
The Progress of Poesy .........
The Bard.
For Music .......................
The Fatal Sisters ................
The Descent of Odin .........
The Triumphs of Owen........
The Death of Hoel.............
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Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke ............................
Epitaph on Sir William Williams ..............
Elegy, written in a Country Churchyard
Sonnet on the Death of Mr. West...................
A Long Story.......
POSTHUMOUS POEMS AND FRAGMENTS.
Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude ....
Translation of a Passage from Statius...............
Fragment of a Tragedy, on the Subject of the
Death of Agrippina ........
89
.........
Hymn to Ignorance .......
The Alliance of Education and Government .....
Stanzas to Mr. Bentley..............
Sketch of his own Character ........
Amatory Lines ..........................................
Song ..........
Tophet. An Epigram .........
............ 101
Impromptu, suggested by a View of the Seat and
Ruins of a deceased Nobleman .................... 102
The Candidate; or, the Cambridge Courtship... 103
............
POEMATA.
Hymeneal on the Marriage of the Prince of Wales 105
Sapphic Ode To Mr. West ........................... 108
Alcaic Fragment ..........................
Lines addressed to Mr. West, from Genoa ........
Elegiac Verses............
Carmen ad C. Favonium Zephyrinum .............. 113
Fragment of a Latin Poem on the Gaurus.........
A Farewell to Florence.......
Imitation of an Italian Sonnet...........................
Alcaic Ode......
Luna Habitabilis ................. ..............
Part of an Heroic Epistle from Sophonisba to
Masinissa
........... 124
De Principiis Cogitandi ........... ............ 126
Greek Epigram ......
............ 134
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