Camilla Gray

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, GCVO, CSM, PC ne Camilla Rosemary Shand, previously Parker Bowles born 17 July 1947, is the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes. You can add notes or queries to any part of the poetic text by simply clicking on the line in. All. contributions will be submitted to the editor in the first instance. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat,Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes 1 Twas on a lofty vases side, 2 Where Chinas gayest art had dyed 3     The azure flowers, that blow 4 Demurest of the tabby kind, 5 The pensive Selima reclined, 6     Gazed on the lake below. Her conscious tail her joy declared 8 The fair round face, the snowy beard, 9     The velvet of her paws, 1. Her coat, that with the tortoise vies, 1. Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes, 1. She saw and purred applause. Still had she gazed but midst the tide 1. Two angel forms were seen to glide, 1. The genii of the stream 1. Their scaly armours Tyrian hue 1. Through richest purple to the view 1. Betrayed a golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw 2. A whisker first and then a claw, 2. With many an ardent wish, 2. She stretched in vain to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise What cats averse to fish Presumptuous maidAgain she stretched, again she bent, 2. Nor knew the gulf between. Malignant Fate sat by, and smiled 2. The Thomas Gray Archive is a collaborative digital archive and research project devoted to the life and work of eighteenthcentury poet, letterwriter, and. Find listings of free rehab centers in Georgia. We have listed out all of the cities below in Georgia, where we have found hard to find resources for treatment. For Marin, Sonoma and Napa Counties, Dairydell is a Petaluma Dog Training Center specializing in dog training for women with deluxe boarding. Camilla and Prince Charles come from a generation where they dont enjoy this kind of food but William and Kate love it. This feature is not available right now. How To Run Wordcount Program In Eclipse. Please try again later. The slippery verge her feet beguiled, 3. She tumbled headlong in. Eight times emerging from the flood 3. She mewed to every watery god, 3. Some speedy aid to send. No dolphin came, no Nereid stirred 3. Nor cruel Tom, nor Susan heard. A favourite has no friend From hence, ye beauties, undeceived, 3. Know, one false step is neer retrieved, 3. Camilla Gray' title='Camilla Gray' />And be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wandering eyes 4. And heedless hearts, is lawful prize 4. Nor all that glisters gold. Expanding the poem lines shows the results of a computationally facilitated analysis of the text. These results should be considered as a basis for deeper interpretative enquiry such as can be found in the notes and queries. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat,Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes Skip to next line. Metrical notation  Metrical foot type  iambic Metrical foot number  tetrameter 4 feet, trimeter 3 feetRhyme scheme  aabccb. Rhyme stanza position  pair aabbSyllable pattern  8. Stanza  sestet 6 linesGenres  ballad metre, ode, Song to David stanza, fable, mock heroic. Themes  advice, moral precepts, animals, death. Notation symbols foot boundary, caesura, metrical line boundary, metrically prominent, metrically non prominent4. Nor all that glisters gold. Expanding the poem lines shows notes and queries taken from various critical editions of Grays works, as well as those contributed by users of the Archive. Camilla Gray Nakamol JewelryThere are 6. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat,Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes 1. Explanatory, 1. 0 Textual. Skip to next line. TitleParatext Several copies of this poem. E. Gosse, 1. 88. 4. Several copies of this poem exist in Grays handwriting. One in a letter to Walpole, dated March 1, 1. Wharton, and one at Pembroke College. The subject was the death of one of Horace Walpoles favourite cats, Zara and Selima Selima, was it Fatima, who fell into a china bowl and was drowned. Walpole, after the death of Gray, placed the bowl on a pedestal at Strawberry Hill, with a few lines from this poem for its inscription. The Ode, which was written at Cambridge towards the end of February 1. Dodsleys Collection of Poems by several Hands, 1. Grays Six Poems. Ed. The Works of Thomas Gray In Prose and Verse. Ed. by Edmund Gosse, in four vols. London Mac. Millan and Co., 1. TitleParatext This Ode was written early. W. Lyon Phelps, 1. This Ode was written early in the year 1. Horace Walpole, dated 1 March, 1. Gray to commemorate the untimely drowning of one of his friends pet cats. See p. 6. 9. Walpole seems to have admired the poem fully as much as he had loved its object and after Grays death the china bowl in which the cat was drowned was placed on a pedestal at Strawberry Hill, with a quotation from the present poem. This Ode was first published in Vol. II of Dodsleys Collection of Poems, 1. Gray himself liked it may be seen from the fact that it appeared also in the Six Poems of 1. Grays own carefully edited volume of 1. The Ode is a trifle, but is polished with all of Grays fastidious workmanship. Gray sent it to his friend Thomas Wharton, with some playful comments, March, 1. Works, II, 1. 64. Selections from the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Gray. Ed. with an introduction and notes by William Lyon Phelps. The Athenaeum press series. Boston Ginn company, 1. TitleParatext This Ode was sent in. J. Bradshaw, 1. 90. This Ode was sent in a letter to Horace Walpole, dated March 1, 1. Gray sent a copy of it to Thomas Wharton, describing it, in mock heroic style, as the most noble of my performances latterly. There is a third copy in his handwriting in the Pembroke MSS. The letter to Walpole is as follows         Cambridge, March 1, 1. As one ought to be particularly careful to avoid blunders in a compliment of condolence, it would be a sensible satisfaction to me before I testify my sorrow, and the sincere part I take in your misfortune to know, for certain, who it is I lament. I knew Zara and Selima Selima, was it Fatima or rather I knew them both together for I cannot justly say which was which. Then as to your handsome Cat, the name you distinguish her by, I am no less at a loss, as well knowing ones handsome cat is always the cat one likes best or, if one be alive and the other dead, it is usually the latter that is the handsomest. Besides, if the point were never so clear, I hope you do not think me so ill bred or so imprudent as to forfeit all my interest in the survivor oh noI would rather seem to mistake, and imagine to be sure it must be the tabby one that had met with this sad accident. Till this affair is a little better determined, you will excuse me if I do not begin to cry Tempus inane peto, requiem, spatiumque doloris. Which interval is the more convenient, as it gives time to rejoice with you on your new honours footnote Walpole had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This is only a beginning I reckon next week we shall hear you are a free mason, or a Gormogon footnote There is a print of Hogarths with this title, The Mystery of Masonry brought to light by the Gormogons. See Nicholls Life of Hogarth, and Popes Dunciad, iv. Heigh ho I feel as you to be sure have done long since that I have very little to say, at least in prose. Somebody will be the better for it I do not mean you, but your Cat, feue Mademoiselle Selime, whom I am about to immortalize for one week or fortnight, as follows Here followed the Ode. Theres a poem for you, it is rather too long for an Epitaph. The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray English and Latin. Edited with an introduction, life, notes and a bibliography by John Bradshaw. Reprinted edition. The Aldine edition of the British poets series. London George Bell and sons, 1. TitleParatext The Ode was first printed. J. Bradshaw, 1. 90. The Ode was first printed in 1. Vol. II of Dodsleys Collection of Poems, and forms the second piece in the 1. Grays Six Poems and in the subsequent editions. The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray English and Latin.