 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 forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels...  Poems of the English Race - Page 240edited by - 1921 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...Irish Seas, 1637. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their kighth. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...Irish seas, 1637.] 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,...left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and... | |
 | 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...left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...Irish seas, 1637 : and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due ; • Edward King, Esq. the son of Sir John King, knight, secretary for Ireland, lie was sailing from... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...learned friend, who, on his passage from Chester to Ireland, was drowned in the Irish seas, 1637. j YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and... | |
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