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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.... "
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Page 317
edited by - 1902 - 1084 pages
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Gabriel [a poem] by B.R. Parkes

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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

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...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

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...
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Works ...

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...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

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...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

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...
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Milton's Poetical Works

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,...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ...

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...
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Verses and Translations

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...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

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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