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An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

Thomas Gray

Paperback | Pages: 6 pages

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Title	:	An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
Author	:	Thomas Gray
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 6 pages
Published	:	(first published 1751)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics

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A song for the unsung.
Full many a Flower is born
To blush unseen
This poem, very famous in it’s day, is a beautiful recognition of the great people who simply live amazing heroic lives in obscurity.
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Original Title:	An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
ISBN:	1857362233 (ISBN13: 9781857362237)

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Ratings: 4 From 788 Users | 44 Reviews

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I realize that this is supposed to be one of the greatest poems ever written in the English language, but I just wasn't impressed.

I have loved the poem since I read it in college British Literature class. The information about Thomas Gray was a nice addition. This book is a cherished part of my library.

There's a reason he's only known for one poem . . . though he only published 13 in his life so perhaps that's not fair. Really, though, only the one is good.

Ive loved a quote from this poem ever since I read Emma by Jane Austen in my teens - but as it was unaccredited and translated into Norwegian it took me quite a few years to track down the original quotation:Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.(På norsk: Så mang en blomst slår usett ut sin prakt og ødsler skjønne dufter i en øde egn.)Yesterday I came across other quotes from this poem in the book Icons of England, edited by Bill Bryson, in the

some really lovely imagery

Thomas Gray's lines captured my imagination years ago:The boast of heraldy, the pomp of pow'r,And all that beauty, all that wealth e're gaveAwaits alike th' inevitable hour:The paths of glory lead but to the grave.This brief stanza is beautiful and telling, but not the only memorable line of this enduring and memorable poem:Full many a Flower is born to blush unseenAnd wast its sweetness on the desert Air.And then he writes this:He gave to Mis'ry all he had, a Tear.He gained from Heav'n' twal