The writer of the line
This man penned the lines "The slippery verge her feet beguiled/She tumbled headlong in" in a poem he wrote for his lifelong friend Horace Walpole, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes". He is responsible for many memorable lines including "Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest" and "where ignorance is bliss,/'tis folly to be wise", the latter of which came from his "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College". The writer of the line "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" in his most famous work, identify this poet of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".
This man penned the lines "The slippery verge her feet beguiled/
Thomas {Gray}