 But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest, Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 27de British poets - 1822Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 pages
...solitary fly ! ____ — — — Thvjpys no'glittering female jneets, No hive; hast thou of hoar3ed sweets, No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings...youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone We frolick, while 'tis May. ^ to^K.. 5° * " Nare per aestatem liquidam - " Virgil. Georg. lib. 4. t -... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - 1998 - 238 pages
...literally, speaks the final word. Gray's first four stanzas come, in the fifth, to their dryasdust end: Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply:...is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolick, while 'tis May. (4i-50) These are indeed thoughts, that breathe, and words, that burn. The... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 pages
..."A solitary fly!" who violates the "race" of nature, by beginning where he should end, with death: On hasty wings thy youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May. The chain of substitutions here seems to lead to the desired effect of a structured truth-progression... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 pages
...dismissed. The fifth stanza of Gray's poem in fact turns all that has preceded it playfully on its head: Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply:...youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone Although we may at first be tempted to dismiss the Horatian theme encapsulated here as yet another... | |
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