 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
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...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 would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 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...disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere liis prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...seas, 1637 : and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due ; • Edward King, Esq. the son of Sir John King, knight, secretary for Ireland, lie was sailing from... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...headlong wave, Till thou our summons answer'd have. Listen, and save. ***** EXTRACT FROM LYCIDAS. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...seas, 1637 ; and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind, all passion spent. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. LYCIDAS. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...to pluck your berries harsh and crude; And , with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...learned friend, who, on his passage from Chester to Ireland, was drowned in the Irish seas, 1637. j YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...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 Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...learned friend, who, on his passage from Chester to Ireland, was drowned in the Irish seas, 1637.] YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead,—dead ere his prime ;— Young Lycidas,—and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for... | |
 | George Field - Color - 1835 - 310 pages
...poets. Milton employs this colour in the beginning of his " Monody of Lycidas " thus plaintively : Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year ; For Lycidas is dead — . And in the following, from an unknown hand, brown is thus beautifully associated... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...seoa, Iti37, and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lyeidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lyeiclas, and has not left his peer: Who would not sing... | |
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