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" Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every... "
The Elements of the English Language - Page 174
by Ernest Adams - 1858 - 183 pages
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies...To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.— # # # * Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more ; For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies...tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. — * * * * Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more ; For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk...
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Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, Volume 92

1922 - 1180 pages
...Daffadowndillies ' ; and this latter, moreover, may be in Milton's recollection as he writes — -' And daffodillies fill their cups with tears To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.' Now look at Shakespeare's Daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

1909 - 502 pages
...head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. For so, to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me ! whilst...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies...tears To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. For so, to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me! whilst...
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November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg

Kent Gramm - 2001 - 350 pages
...head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And Datfadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the Laureate hearse where Lycid lies. For so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me! Whilst thee...
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The Major Works

John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, 150 To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. For so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail...
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L' Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas

John Milton - 2006 - 66 pages
...head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. For so, to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false Ay me! whilst thee the...
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