...descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different object do these eyes require: My lonely...bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain ; I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain. EPITAPH ON...

...alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish mtlts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect...bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain." It will easily...

...prose even more widely than the lines which either precede or follow, in the position of the words. " A. different object do these eyes require ; My lonely...mine ; A.nd in my breast the imperfect joys expire" But were it otherwise, what would this prove, but a truth, of which no man ever doubted ? — videlicet,...

...Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire! The birds in vain their amorous descant join; A different object do these eyes require: My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas! for other notes repine, And in my breast...

...lines, which either precede or follow, in the position of the words. i Ji " A different object do thete eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breaft the imperfect joyt expire" * T * But were it otherwise, what would this prove, but a truth,...

...different object do these eyes require ; My lonely an9uish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast ike imperfect joys expire ; Yet morning smiles the busy...bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitiest mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain.' It will easily...

...descant join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine 5 A different object do these eyes require : My lonely...mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. V. 9. " Primosque et extremes metendo slravit humum, sine clade victor." Hor. Od. iv. 14, 31. V. 1....

...descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas! for other notes repine, A different object do these eyes require: My lonely...bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain: I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain. The treatment...

...prose even more widely, than the lines which either precede or follow, in the position of the words. A different object do these eyes require; My lonely...mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. But were it otherwise, what would this prove, but a truth, of which no man ever doubted? Videlicet,...

...regularity. The sonnet consists of three units, two of six lines each flanking the central distich: "My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; / And in my breast the imperfect joys expire." This stasis is the outward evidence of Gray's declared emotional paralysis; the sonnet is constructed...