THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

THOMAS GRAY.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN SHARPE,

AND OTHER PROPRIETORS;

BY C. AND C. WHITTINGHAM, CHISWICK.

M DCCC XXVI,

MD

ENOX LIBRARE

NEW YORK

CONTENTS.

ODES.

On the Spring.

On the Death of a favourite Cat.......

On a distant Prospect of Eton College..........

To Adversity

The Progress of Poesy

The Bard....

For Music

The Fatal Sisters......

The Descent of Odin.

The Triumphs of Owen...

The Death of Hoel..

Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke

Epitaph on Sir William Williams..

Elegy, written in a Country Churchyard

Sonnet on the Death of Mr. West.......

A Long Story.....

POSTHUMOUS POEMS AND FRAGMENTS.

Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude....

Translation of a Passage from Statius.........

Fragment of a Tragedy, on the Subject of the

Death of Agrippina

Hymn to Ignorance

The Alliance of Education and Government..

Stanzas to Mr. Bentley...............

Sketch of his own Character

Amatory Lines

...

Song.

100

Tophet. An Epigram

...... 101

Impromptu, suggested by a View of the Seat and

Ruins of a deceased Nobleman

102

The Candidate; or, the Cambridge Courtship... 103

De Principiis Cogitandi

Greek Epigram

POEMATA.

Hymeneal on the Marriage of the Prince of Wales 105

Sapphic Ode. To Mr. West.........

108

Alcaic Fragment....

111

Lines addressed to Mr. West, from Genoa....

111

Elegiac Verses.......

112

Carmen ad C. Favonium Zephyrinum....

113

Fragment of a Latin Poem on the Gaurus........ 115

A Farewell to Florence......

118

Imitation of an Italian Sonnet....

119

Alcaic Ode....................

120

Luna Habitabilis

121

Part of an Heroic Epistle from Sophonisba to

Masinissa

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