Team of Rivals on Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: “Gray’s “Elegy,” which Lincoln quoted in his small autobiography to explain his attitude toward his childhood poverty, asserts that “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen/And waste its swee[tness on the desert air]””
In Cold Blood on Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: “Andrews' farewell message turned out to be the ninth stanza of Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard': The boasts of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r...”
Beef and Potatoes on Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: “A poet? Why yes, in those days I was a poet. I used to love reading the translation of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, the one that begins 'Yamayama kasumi iriai no', and write verses of my own. Compared with today's new-style poets I'm a veteran, you know. [auto-translated]”
Riceyman Steps on Poems: “Here's one of the earliest collected editions of Gray's Poems.”
The Pirate on The Descent of Odin: “who, as in the legend called by Gray the Descent of Odin, awakens by the force of Runic rhyme the unwilling revealer of the doom of fate,”
The Pirate on The Fatal Sisters: “When Gray's Ode, entitled the "Fatal Sisters," was first published, or at least first reached that remote island, the reverend gentleman had the well-judged curiosity to read it to some of the old”