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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... "
Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry - Page 93
edited by - 1882 - 958 pages
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Paradise Lost and Regained: With the Latin and Other Poems of John ..., Volume 4

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...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 sojne melodious...
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Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ...

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...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...
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Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ...

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...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...
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Licida, di Giovanni Milton: Mondodia per la morte del naufragato Eduardo King

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...Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

1822 - 284 pages
...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...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...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...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, with...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...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 1-2

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...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...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and snd t Matthew thought better ; for Matthew thought right,...a chariot so trim and so tight, [pass : That extre rhime. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...st. 53. Love of yourself, she said, and dear comtraint, Let me not sleep, but waste the weary night Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas...Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, 1O. Who would...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord Byron

George Clinton - 1825 - 826 pages
...own,) that event, which, more than any other of a like nature, plunged the whole nation into grief. ' Lycidas is dead ! dead ere his prime. Young Lycidas...knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.' And yet, rife as monodies are upon less important and imperious occasions, none have been produced...
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