 Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood,...  Fun - Page 1021865Full view - About this book
 | Francesco Orlando - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 520 pages
...unroll; Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden that... | |
 | Karla F. C. Holloway - African Americans - 2006 - 242 pages
...one of its stanzas the expression of unrealized promise of children in my native Detroit: Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And \vaste its sweetness on the desert air. As the lengthy list continues,... | |
 | Anne-Lise François - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 336 pages
...acknowledgment deriving from one's having had to ask for it). Borrowing from Gray's lines — Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. ("Elegy Written in a Country... | |
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