Tag: thomas gray

• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

  

  Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. Nor you, ye proud, impute to those the fault, If memory o’er their tomb no trophies raise, Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing…

  Adrienne Morris

  February 15, 2017

  inspirational, Poetry, Uncategorized

  church yards, elegy, life and death, old church, Poetry, solon pond, Taylor NY, thomas gray, white church