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" 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 Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins - Page 153
1836
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...bewails a learned friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish seas, 1637; and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted...dear, 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...
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The English Poets, Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...square my trial To my proportion'd strength. Shepherd, lead on. \Exeunt. LYCIDAS. [1637; set. 29.] Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...dear, 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...
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Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...square my trial To my proportion'd strength. Shepherd, lead on. {Exeunt. LYCIDAS. [1637; set. 29.] Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...dear, 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...
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Poets in the Pulpit

Hugh Reginald Haweis - Poetry - 1880 - 362 pages
...when it is put into the mouth of a shepherd amenting the loss of his friend. I take a portion of it: " Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...occasion dear 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...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 584 pages
...bewails a learned friend, unfortunately drowned in hia passage from Chester on the Irish sea,s, 16."!7, and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas! and...
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Poets in the Pulpit

Hugh Reginald Haweis - Poetry - 1880 - 354 pages
...when it is put into the mouth of a shepherd amenting the loss of his friend. I take a portion of it: " Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...occasion dear 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...
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Poets in the Pulpit

Hugh Reginald Haweis - Poetry - 1880 - 354 pages
...shepherd amenting the loss of his friend. I take a portion of it : " Yet once more, O ye laurels, arid once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I...occasion dear 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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1880 - 654 pages
...bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637 ; and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of our corrupted...with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harih and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter...
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...live. From 'Lyddas* Tet 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,...dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere bis prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political ..., Volume 1

David Masson - Great Britain - 1881 - 874 pages
...it. After the poetic canaille have been heard, listen how a true poet begins on the same theme : — Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...occasion dear 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...
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