Charles Harpur - Gray

Charles Harpur - Gray

The loud, apt epithet, applying sure; br The dim-drawn image, artfully obscure; br The perfect stanza, framed of words as choice br And round as pearls, yet liquid to the voice; br A pith of phrase, and musical array br Of numbers;—these are the prime charms of Gray. br br The naked majesty and open wonder br Of true sublimity heaped in lines of thunder; br That artless grace wherewith the olden time br Dandled the happy infancy of Rhyme; br That negligent melody which shames the trick br Of wire-drawn verse, and verse-drawn rhetoric: br These in our rich old Bards abound; but these br To Gray were literary heresies.


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