Thomas Gray Quotes


The insect-youth are on the wing,
Eager to taste the honied spring,
And float amid the liquid noon!


Citations

Gray, Thomas. "Ode on the Spring." The Works of Thomas Gray, edited by Edmund Gosse, vol. 1, Macmillan and Co., 1884, p. 4.

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Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray
  • Born: December 26, 1716
  • Died: July 30, 1771
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet

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.