 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...  The first (-sixth) part of Miscellany poems, publ. by Mr. Dryden - Page 162by Miscellany poems - 1716Full view - About this book
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 pages
...* 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 me to disturb * your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...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 me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 332 pages
...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 me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young... | |
 | W. F. March Phillipps - Elegiac poetry - 1879 - 384 pages
...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 me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...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 me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 720 pages
...myrtles brown with ivy never 8er», I come to pluck your berries barsh and rrude, And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year: Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycldas Is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - Poetry - 1880 - 356 pages
...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 me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...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 me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas* is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - Poetry - 1880 - 354 pages
...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 me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...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 me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
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