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Thomas Gray

Geburtstag: 26. Dezember 1716
Todesdatum: 30. Juli 1771
Andere Namen:توماس غراي, توماس قری

Thomas Gray war ein englischer Dichter, Gelehrter und Briefe-Schreiber.

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„Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife“

— Thomas Gray
Context: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. St. 19

„Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.“

— Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
St. 14

„Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.“

— Thomas Gray, Selected Poems
Context: Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. III. 3, Line 2

„[... ] where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.“

— Thomas Gray

„The paths of glory lead but to the grave.“

— Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

„Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,
The bee's collected treasures sweet,
Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet
The still small voice of gratitude.“

— Thomas Gray
Ode for Music http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=ocmu (1769), V, line 8

„The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.“

— Thomas Gray
St. 1

„Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth.
And Melancholy marked him for her own.“

— Thomas Gray
The Epitaph, St. 1

„From toil he wins his spirits light,
From busy day the peaceful night;
Rich, from the very want of wealth,
In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.“

— Thomas Gray
Line 93

„For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,
Or busy housewife ply her evening care:
No children run to lisp their sire's return,
Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.“

— Thomas Gray
St. 6

„Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade!
Ah, fields beloved in vain!
Where once my careless childhood stray'd,
A stranger yet to pain!
I feel the gales that from ye blow
A momentary bliss bestow.“

— Thomas Gray
St. 2

„No further seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.“

— Thomas Gray
The Epitaph

„To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan,
The tender for another's pain;
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.“

— Thomas Gray
St. 10

„Can storied urn, or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?“

— Thomas Gray
St. 11

„Where his glowing eye−balls turn,
Thousand banners round him burn.
Where he points his purple spear,
Hasty, hasty Rout is there,
Marking with indignant eye
Fear to stop and shame to fly.
There Confusion, Terror's child,
Conflict fierce and Ruin wild,
Agony that pants for breath,
Despair and honourable Death.“

— Thomas Gray
"The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment", from Mr. Evans's Specimens of the Welch Poetry (1764)

„Behind the steps that Misery treads
Approaching Comfort view:
The hues of bliss more brightly glow
Chastised by sabler tints of woe,
And blended form, with artful strife,
The strength and harmony of life.“

— Thomas Gray
Line 35

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