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... A Manual of English Literature - Page 332by Henry Morley - 1879 - 665 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1893 - 340 pages
...ye Laurels, and once more, Ye myrtle* brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your betriei hanh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your...before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and tad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due : For LYCIDAS a down, down ere bis prime. "... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1881 - 644 pages
...the old old story told with more or less monotony of mourn fulness since the time of MILTON : — " For LYCIDAS is dead, dead ere his prime, Young LYCIDAS, and hath not left his peer." Here a moment in the full bloom and strength of Parliamentar vigour ; the next. " Comes the blind Fury... | |
| 1841 - 412 pages
...thrilling voice of the singer is hushed ; " For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his primp, Young Lyridus, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing : " "Peace to his memory! the graceful scholar! the eloquent speaker! the... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...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...not left, his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew, Himself, to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd ( X= ~n 7 ` Z f "# ΏH94 JWn " W Lǝ < v ɞFO s '8 D * ɐ B҂ ( - , ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 1 0 He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd e jowl." The frugal crone, whom praying priests attend, Still strives to save the hallow ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 10 He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forc'd Î He knew Himself to sing, ami build the lofty rhyme. lie must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1844 - 464 pages
...ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never eere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter...For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime — Young Lycidasl"* LOOK, reader, once more with the eye and heart of sympathy, at a melancholy page in the... | |
| 1850 - 640 pages
...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...Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me I MUST beg of you to slip over a portion of time, and to suppose about two years passed over our heads,... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1844 - 460 pages
...ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, 1 come to pluck your berries harsh and crude; And , with forced fingers rude , Shatter...leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint ami sad occasion dear. Compels me to disturb your season duel For Lycidas is dead , dead ere his prime... | |
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