 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year: Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...Lycidas ? He knew 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...Lycidas ? He knew 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year: Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...Lycidas ? He knew 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...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... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...berries harsh and. crude; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year: Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...Lycidas ? He knew 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... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...berries harsh and crude : And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing- year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear, Compels me...Lycidas ? he knew 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...berries harsh and crnde ; And, with forced fingers rnde, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...Lycidas ? He knew 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... | |
 | 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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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.... 
