1751 in poetry

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,

Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile

The short and simple annals of the poor.

— Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, published this year

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