 YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels...  Golden Leaves from the British Poets - Page 40by John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 546 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1850 - 896 pages
...CHAPTER VIII. 11 Yet once more, oh, ye lanrele, and once more, Ye myruee brown, with ivy never sere, 1 come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with...Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me — " MILTON'S Lycidas. I MUST beg of you to slip over a portion of time, and to suppose about two... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 pages
...supposed to have been written, like the preceding ones, at Horton, in Buckinghamshire. Yet once more, 0 ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidaa, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...MONODY ON EDWARD KING, [A COLLEGE COMPANION OF MIlTON's, WHO PERISHED RY SHIPWRECK.] YE* once more, oh ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion drear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...Inform'd by thee, might know : if eke thou seek'st Aught not surpassing human measure, say." LYCIDAS. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill." LYCIDAS. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...the structure of the pastoral. He called on the shepherds and on all nature to mourn with him. " Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forc'd fingers rude, Scatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint and sad occasion... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. DROWNED IN HIS PASSAGE FROM CHESTER ON THE IRISH SEAS, 1G37. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 380 pages
...in their highth. YET once more,2 O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And,...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 1 Edward King, Esq.,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...in their highth. YET once more,2 O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And,...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 1 Edward King, Esq.,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, deud ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas ! He... | |
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