 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...  Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry - Sida 93redigerad av - 1882 - 958 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 sidor
...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...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of sojne melodious... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 sidor
...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...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 sidor
...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...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 sidor
...Ye 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...Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
 | 1822 - 284 sidor
...their highth. 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...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sidor
...seas, 1637.] 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...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind,. Without the meed of some melodious... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 sidor
...with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crnde ; And, with forced fingers rnde, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sidor
...with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and snd t Matthew thought better ; for Matthew thought right,...a chariot so trim and so tight, [pass : That extre rhime. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 sidor
...st. 53. Love of yourself, she said, and dear comtraint, Let me not sleep, but waste the weary night Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas...Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, 1O. Who would... | |
 | George Clinton - 1825 - 826 sidor
...own,) that event, which, more than any other of a like nature, plunged the whole nation into grief. ' Lycidas is dead ! dead ere his prime. Young Lycidas...knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.' And yet, rife as monodies are upon less important and imperious occasions, none have been produced... | |
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