 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...  Golden Leaves from the British Poets - Page 40by John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 546 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...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...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...And I with thee will choose to live. ...j 78 MILTOM : ,; ' : LYCIDAS. Yet once more, O ye'Laurels, and once more, Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere,...prime ; Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1854 - 526 pages
...laurels, and once more, Te myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh aiid crude; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your...Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime — Young Lycidas ! * LOOK, reader, once more with the eye and heart of sympathy, at a melancholy page in the book of... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...Ireland in 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...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...seas, 1637, and by occasion foretels the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. ] YET once more, O ye laurels! and once more Ye myrtles...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...brown, with ivy never sere, I eome to pluck your berries harsh and crude, RURAL POETRY. — MILTON. And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...courtly stable Bright-harnessed2 angels sit in order serviceable. LYCIDAS.3 (ABRIDGED.) YET once more,4 O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with...berries harsh and crude, And, with forced fingers rude, ( I ) Youngest-teemed — last created. (See note 4, p. 32.) ( 2 ) Bright-harnessed — equipped in... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...corrupted clergy, then in their height.] YET once more, O ye laurels ! and once moie Ye myrtles hrown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...harsh and crude ; And. with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...supposed to have been written, like the preceding ones, at Hor ton, in Buckinghamshire. Yet once more, 0 ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float... | |
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