This poem alludes to a figure that has "incense kindled [at her] flame" and how that Muse "many a holy text around she strew.
In this poem's 18th stanza, the speaker laments the "struggling pangs of conscious truth" and mentions the "shrine of Luxury and Pride." This poem alludes to a figure that has "incense kindled [at her] flame" and how that Muse "many a holy text around she strew." Ending with a three-stanza epitaph mentioning how "fair Science frowned not on his humble birth," it refers to "some (*) Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood" and imagines a "village Hampden" while admiring people "far from the madding crowd's ignorable strife." Beginning with "the curfew tolls the knell of parting day," for 10 points, name this poem by Thomas Gray composed at a local cemetery.
In this poem's 18th stanza, the speaker laments the "struggling pangs of conscious truth" and mentions the "shrine of Luxury and Pride."
“{Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard}” [MB]