 | 1847 - 488 pages
...answer these criticisms, we need merely reprint part of the poem itself. Milton thus begins : — " Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pick your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...Irish seas, 1 637 . And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy then in their highth. 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...And I with thee will choose to live. [Prom lycidat.] Yet once more, 0 ye laurels, and once more Yc arsliiil'st me the way that I was going J And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year: Bitter constraint, and sad occasion... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 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 to disturb your season due ; _ For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime ; Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...Syrinx well might wait on her. Such a rural queen All Arcadia hath not seen. EJTD OP ARCADRS. LYCIDA8. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year: Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead,... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...live. JtlLTOJI LTODAS. Yet once more, O re Laurels, and once more, Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy nerer sere, I come to pluck your berries, harsh and crude,...rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead,... | |
 | 1850 - 896 pages
...CHAPTER VIII. 11 Yet once more, oh, ye lanrele, and once more, Ye myruee brown, with ivy never sere, 1 come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me — " MILTON'S Lycidas. I MUST beg of you to slip... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 pages
...supposed to have been written, like the preceding ones, at Horton, in Buckinghamshire. Yet once more, 0 ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead,... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...MONODY ON EDWARD KING, [A COLLEGE COMPANION OF MIlTON's, WHO PERISHED RY SHIPWRECK.] YE* once more, oh ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion drear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead,... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...Irifh Seas, 1637. And by occafan foretells the ruine of our corrupted Clergie then in their height. )ET once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never fear, I com to pluck your Berries harm and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves... | |
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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... 
