 Bitter constraint, and sad 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 for Lycidas ? He knew, Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme....  The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Page 317edited by - 1902 - 1084 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...their highth. I ET 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...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of sojne melodious... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...their highth. 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...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...their highth. \ ET 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...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...MILTON. JL ET 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...Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...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-...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind,. Without the meed of some melodious... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crnde ; And, with forced fingers rnde, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious... | |
 | 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 rhime. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...st. 53. Love of yourself, she said, and dear comtraint, Let me not sleep, but waste the weary night Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas...Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, 1O. Who would... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas...Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
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