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
| Bessie Rayner Belloc - 1856 - 132 pages
...FIDELIO 91 THE PORTRAIT 97 ABSENCE 100 THE SHIPWRECK ,, .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. 102 COR CORDIUM. " LYCIDAS is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas,...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 - 1857 - 664 pages
...Ye myrtles hrown, 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...harsh and crude ; And. with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...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...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... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...called on by this sad and unexpected occaiton, to break a resolution he had previously made, to refrain Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter...Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.1 He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
| 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...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter... | |
| John Milton - English poetry - 1861 - 734 pages
...highth. YET once more, 2 0 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...peer: .. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 1 Edward King, Esq., the son of Sir John King, knight,... | |
| 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...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... | |
| Charles Stuart Calverley - Classical poetry - 1862 - 220 pages
...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...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... | |
| English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...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...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... | |
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