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table of contents
  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
  4. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
  5. Ode on the Spring
  6. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  7. A Long Story
  8. Hymn to Adversity
  9. The Bard
  10. The Progress of Poesy
  11. The Descent of Odin
  12. The Fatal Sisters
  13. Ode for Music
  14. Agrippina
    1. Dramatis Personae
    2. The Argument
    3. Scene I
    4. Scene II
  15. The Alliance of Education and Government
  16. Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke
  17. Epitaph on Sir William Williams
  18. Hymn to Ignorance
  19. Lines Written at Burnham
  20. Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude
  21. Gray on Himself
  22. Sonnet on the Death of Richard West
  23. Stanzas to Mr. Bentley
  24. The Candidate
  25. Impromptu
  26. Tophet
  27. Song
  28. Epitaph on Mrs. Mason
  29. Amatory Lines
  30. Comic Lines
  31. Verses from Shakespeare
  32. Epitaph on a Child
  33. Satire on the Heads of Houses
  34. Impromptus
  35. Lines
  36. Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern
  37. Endnotes
  38. Colophon
  39. Uncopyright

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Poetry
includes poems first published between 1747 and 1915 by
Thomas Gray.

This ebook was produced for
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Harry Lund,
and is based on transcriptions from
various sources
and on digital scans from
various sources.

The cover page is adapted from
Thomas Gray,
a painting completed between 1747 and 1748 by
John Giles Eccart.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
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This edition was released on
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