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Thomas Gray [1716-1771] English
Rank: 102
Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Classicism, Enlightenment, Gothic, Graveyard poets, Romanticism, Sonnet


Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.

Poetry, Smile



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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. Smile
101
'Tis folly to be wise.
102
I shall be but a shrimp of an author.
103
Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
104
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
105
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
106
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Poetry
107
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
108
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
109
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
110
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
111
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
112
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
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