 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
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 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 would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 10 He must not float... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 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҂ ( - , would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 1 0 He must not float... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Medicine - 1844 - 464 pages
...MERCHANT'S CLERK. " Yet once more ! O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never eere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And,...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... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...alacrity than even she had been known to do upon many a worthier subject. CHAPTER VIII. Yet once more, oh, ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...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,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...note 4, p. 32. 6 Bright-harnessed — equipped in bright armour. LYCID AS.1 ABRIDGED. YET once more,2 O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. 1 This monody was written on occasion of the death of Milton's friend, Mr. Edward King, who was drowned... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...written, like the preceding ones, at Horton, in Buckinghamshire. Yet once more, 0 ye laurels, and (face more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...Buckinghamshire. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never seer, 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. He must not float... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never seer, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never seer, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...brown, with ivy never sere, I contc to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced ftngers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year...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... | |
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