...Sceptered Care, To triumph, and to die, are mine.' The concluding lines return to epic narrative: He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night. The play of epic and dramatic, all within the bounds of lyric, is the great...

...the Bard is a bardic suicidal death - which is also the end of The Bard. A Pindaric Ode. He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night. Here is the altitude, both depth and height in one. Gray's sublime archetypal Good Poet...

...1$ ,V-<rr-^ > t / ' >" , ' Enough for me : with joy I fee ' The different doom our fates afllgn. ' Be thine Defpair, and fcepter'd Care ; ' To triumph,...mountain's height, Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endlefs night. I THI FATAL SISTERS. AN ODE. ( From the NORSI TONCU E. ) To be found in the ORCADES...

...our fates assign. 'Be thine despair and sceptered care; 'To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night. (PTG 198-200) Pope in 1744, the twentieth-century critic Arthur Johnston...

...At the poem's end the bard commits suicide, casting himself into his sublime landscape: "He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height / Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night" (lines 143-44). Gray's poem is elegiac rather than confrontational. Set firmly in the...

...Edward, spoken in the first person by the Bard, and the narrator breaks in to end the poem: "He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height / Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night." Most of the poem is narrated by the Bard through Gray's handling of the point of view....