 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...Irish 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 brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...thy 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 brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...Irish 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 brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves... | |
 | 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 brown , with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude; And , with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves... | |
 | 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 brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves... | |
 | 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 brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude: And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves... | |
 | John Jebb (bp. of Limerick.) - 1837 - 486 pages
...other, as being the genuine effusion of pure friendship, and unaffected piety. JJ Trin. Coll. 1799. 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,... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Physicians - 1838 - 530 pages
...strong ; thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled!" VOL. III. CHAPTER IV. THE MERCHANT'S CLERK. " Yet once more O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh aud crude^; And, with forced finders rudp, Shatter your leayes... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1838 - 692 pages
...strong ; thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled!" VOL. III. CHAPTER IV. THE MERCHANT'S CLERK. " Yet once more O ye laurels, and once more. Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never eere, 1 come to pluck your berries harsh and crude'; And, with forced finders rude, Shatter your leaves... | |
 | American literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...casting a look first at the Paradise Regained and then at the Samson Agonistes, to be set a-reciting " Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy ever sere !" and then we had nothing for it but to read over the whole in our very best manner. Few... | |
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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. 
