GRAY'S WORKS

VOL. IV.

In vain.

Sonnet,

to me.

the smileing. Mornings shine,

And redning Phabus lifts his golden Fire

The Birds in vain
Or chearful Fields

their

Descant amoreus

resume

their

joyn; green Alive.

These tare, alas for other Notes repine,
et different Object do these lyes require
My Conely Anguish melts

And in

my

Breast

no

:

mine;

Heart, but
the imperfect Joys expire
Yet Morning smiles the busy Race to chear,
And new-born Pleasure brings to happier Men:
The Fields to all their wonted Iribute bear :
worm their little Loves the Birds complain :
mourn to him, that cannot hear,

I fruitless

And weep

the

because I more

FACSIMILE OF SONNET TO RICHARD WEST.

OF

THOMAS GRAY

En Prose and Derse

EDITED BY

EDMUND GOSSE

CLARK LECTURER ON ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

IN FOUR VOLS.-VOL. IV.

NOTES ON ARISTOPHANES AND PLATO

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1884

2699.e. 16.