 | 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... | |
 | Paul Alpers - 1997 - 448 pages
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 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, And old Dametas lov'd to hear our song. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art...Thee shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves With wilde thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown And all their echoes mourn. The willows and the hazel copses... | |
 | John Milton - 1999 - 1024 pages
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 | Susan Snyder - 1998 - 268 pages
...enacts his own initiation into a new sense of life, as not eternally repeating itself but finite: "But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, / Now thou art gone, and never must return!" (37-38) Repetition, a usual way of expressing the old easy recurrence, here conveys instead a struggle... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...vain, and coy excuse. 7525 'Lycidas' For we were nursed upon the self-same hill. 7526 'Lycidas' But O nton in the air Know no such liberty. 6539 To Altheu. From Prison' 7527 'Lycidas' The woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown. 7528 'Lycidas'... | |
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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 !... 
