...GRAY) ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant join ; Or chearful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different object...

...SOJVJYET • ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST[49]. IN vain to me the smiling Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain...different object do these eyes require : My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine : And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet Morning smiles the busy race...

...composition, and was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different oljcct Jo these eyes require ; Afy lonely anguish mtlts no heart l'ut mine-; And in my breast thf impe...

...arid was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his- own .poetic diction. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A ifffereni ol-ject do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart tut mine ; And in my breast...

...smiling mornings shine, " And redtfning Phoebus lifts his golden fire: " The birds in vain their am'rous descant join, •' Or cheerful fields resume their...object do these eyes require; *' My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine, " And in my breast th' imperfect joys expire; " Yet morning smiles the busy...

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

...Verbanequit; miser atque magis fleo quod fleo frusttaSONNET (BY MR. GRAY) ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. JN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds ia vain their amorous descant join ;. Or chearful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas...

...fall. SONNET* ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICH4RD WEST. JN vain to me the smiling Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join; Or chearful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas! for other notes repine, A different object...

...Gray, and says that " the only part of it, which is of any value, is the lines printed in Italics."* In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. * We repeat this sonnet with the less hesitation, because it does not appear in the usual editions...

...die? l-'or these I feel : — and feel that they are LOVE. 2. ex. GRAY. ON THE DEATH OP WEST. ELEGIAC. IN vain to me, the smiling Mornings shine And reddening...Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The Birds in vain their am'orons descant join ; Or cheerful Fields resume their sreen attire ; These ears, alas, for other...