A character in this poem describes another person as "drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn" and is himself described as a "hoary-headed swain". This poem describes how "Chill Penury" froze the "genial current of the soul" in the stanza after it imagines a "heart once pregnant with celestial fire". It claims that "all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, awaits alike the inevitable hour" because "The paths of (*) glory lead but to the grave".
A character in this poem describes another person as "drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn" and is himself described as a "hoary-headed swain". This poem describes how "Chill Penury" froze the "genial current of the soul" in the stanza after it imagines a "heart once pregnant with celestial fire". It claims that "all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, awaits alike the inevitable hour" because "The paths of (*) glory lead but to the grave". This poem also hypothesizes about "some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood" or "some mute inglorious Milton", and it coined the phrase "far from the madding crowd". For 10 points, the line "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" opens which poem set in a cemetery and written by Thomas Gray?
A character in this poem describes another person as "drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn" and is himself described as a "hoary-headed swain".
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"