 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
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...brown, 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 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...knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He most not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1875 - 356 pages
...A power, must it maintain. A. Marvell LXVI L YCTDAS Elegy on a Friend drowned in the Irish Channel Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter...he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme, x He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 240 pages
...mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; Eor 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... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 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... | |
 | George Steiner - History - 1971 - 156 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...he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. Laurel, myrtle, and ivy have their specific emblematic life throughout Western art and poetry, and... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...immortal things may be revealed. But we cannot see this promise now, so deep is the speaker's sorrow: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime Young Lycidas,...parching wind, Without the meed of som melodious tear. [8-14] A heavy emphasis falls upon that word welter, occurring as it does in an unrhymed line, and... | |
 | George Steiner - Philology - 1984 - 448 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...he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. Laurel, myrtle and ivy have their specific emblematic life throughout western art and poetry, and within... | |
 | James B. Adamson - Religion - 1989 - 582 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...not sing for Lycidas? He knew, himself, to sing, and built the lofty rime. He must not float upon his watery bier unwept or welter to the parching wind... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced ringers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year....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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