The third stanza of this poem mentions an "ivy-mantled tower" in which a "moping owl" complains to the moon, while the second refers to the "droning flight" of the beetle.
The third stanza of this poem mentions an "ivy-mantled tower" in which a "moping owl" complains to the moon, while the second refers to the "droning flight" of the beetle. Later, the poet asks that "Ambition" not "mock" the "useful toil" of those for whom the "blazing hearth" shall burn no more, and asks if "storied urn or animated bust" can call back to its mansion the "fleeting breath." It ends with a three-stanza "epitaph" for a "youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown." For 10 points, name this poem that begins, "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day," a lugubrious work by Thomas Gray.
The third stanza of this poem mentions an "ivy-mantled tower" in which a "moping owl" complains to the moon, while the second refers to the "droning flight" of the beetle.
{Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard}