 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
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...not need the jar of such doggerel to enhance the charm of the familiar music that Tet once more, О ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter yonr leaves before the mellowing year. In the spring of 1G38, Milton was preparing to leave Horton... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...stable Brisrht-harnessed3 angels sit in order serviceable. LYCIDA S." (ABRIDGED.) YET once more,4 0 ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy...berries harsh and crude, And, with forced fingers rude, (1) Yowngut -teemed— last created. (See note 4, p. 32.) (2) BriiM-ltarnased— equipped In bright... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...sere, I готе to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter yonr leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint...season due, For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Tonng Lycidas, and hath not left bis peer! Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...harsh and crude ; And. with forced ringers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year: 5 Bitter constraint, and gad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1861 - 534 pages
...well might wait on her. Such a rural queen MINOK POEMS. ET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Te myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come, to pluck...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... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1861 - 734 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...Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: .. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 1 Edward King,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...A power, must it maintain. LXVI A. Marvel! L YCIDAS Elegy on a Friend drowned in the Irish Channel Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter...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... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - Poetry, Modern - 1861 - 568 pages
...derivative, Latin swelled pompously through a region not its own. Instead of such lines as " Yet once more, 0 ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy...rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year," we have " Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers," and Adam thus addressing Eve — " Eve,... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - Classical poetry - 1862 - 220 pages
...thou canst not realize the Ideal, thou shalt at least idealize the Eeal. TRANSLATIONS. LTCIDAS. "VET once more, O ye laurels! and once more Ye myrtles...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 upon... | |
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