英语专业英国文学史课件Thomas Gray Robert Burns and William Blake概要1.ppt

ELEGY WRITTEN INA COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise. To scatter plenty o’er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation’s eyes, ELEGY WRITTEN INA COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, ELEGY WRITTEN INA COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse’s flame. Muse: 9 daughters of Zeus, goddesses of Poet, and any other liberal arts and science. ELEGY WRITTEN INA COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, Their sober wished never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. ELEGY WRITTEN INA COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD Yet even these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. ELEGY WRITTEN INA COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. ELEGY WRITTEN INA COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e’er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? ELEGY WRITTEN INA COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. ELEGY WRITTEN INA COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD For thee, who mindful of the unhonored dead Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, ELEGY WRIT