Another poem opens as "The plowman homeward plods his weary way /
This man wrote two poems in sets of strophe, antistrophe and epode: "The Bard" and "The Progress of Poesy."  He declined to be "rat catcher to his Majesty," as he termed the poet laureateship, on the death of Colly Cibber.  One of his poems speaks of "antique towers" in the title locale, before concluding of the occupants that "Thought would destroy their paradise."  Another poem opens as "The plowman homeward plods his weary way / And leaves the world to darkness and to me."  FTP, name this poet of an "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" who noted that "Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest" in his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
This man wrote two poems in sets of strophe, antistrophe and epode: "The Bard" and "The Progress of Poesy."  
Thomas Gray