Thomas Gray Quotes
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
Citations
Gray, Thomas. "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West." The Works of Thomas Gray, edited by Edmund Gosse, vol. 1, Macmillan and Co., 1884, p. 110.
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Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.