 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...say that Eobert Burns will stand a comparison with John Milton. " But oh, the heavy change, now them art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return...caves, With wild thyme, and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn : The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen, Fanning... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...From the glad sound would not be absent long ; 35 And old Damcetas loved to hear our song. But, 0, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art...return ! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods, and desert eaves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, 40 And all their echoes mourn : The willows,... | |
 | 1857 - 458 pages
...the more profound will be our feeling of the void, the more sad that vacancy will appear; — " For O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! " c. R. WOMANHOOD IN AMEKICA. [The following letter — the signature of which will be recognized as... | |
 | 1886 - 890 pages
...We well know how Echo feeds upon the sweet strains of Bion ; how, also, for the shepherd Lytidas, " the woods, and desert caves With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn." It cannot be presumed that so great a goddess is moved for the untuneful... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...From the glad sound would not be absent long ; 35 And old Damoetas loved to hear our song. But, O, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art...o'ergrown, 40 And all their echoes mourn : The willows, and hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen, Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. Aa killing... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...begins by weltering in heavy repetitions: But O the heavy change, now thou art gon, Now thou art gon, and never must return! Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and desert Caves, With wilde Thyme and the gadding Vine o'regrown, And all their echoes mourn. The Willows, and the Hazle... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - 1995 - 288 pages
...never must return!" (1. 38) — and then by transferring the mourning activity from himself to nature: "Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and desert Caves,/ With wild Thyme and the gadding Vine o'ergrown,/ And all their echoes mourn" (11. 39-41). The blight is on nature, associated with the speaker only... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - 1995 - 292 pages
...the passage evoke the literary tradition of elegy. We are reminded, for example, of Lycidas: But O the heavy change, now thou art gone Now thou art gone, and never must return . . . (lines 37-8, my italics) and: Shall no more be seen (line 43, my italics)'7 and of Lear grieving... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...clov'n heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, And old Damaetas lov'd to hear our song. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must retum! Thee shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves. With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...rural ditties; he dared to express the age-old sense of loss in language plain and repetitious: But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art...desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'crgrown, And all their echoes mourn (37-41) Echoes, indeed. Abandoned nature laments the departed... | |
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Tempered to the oaten flute Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long; And old Damoetas loved to hear our song. But, oh! the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return !... 
