 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...  The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins - Page 1531836Full view - About this book
 | George Field - 1841 - 458 pages
...poets. Milton employs this colour in the beginning of his monody of Lycidas thus plaintively :— " Vet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before (lie mellowing year : For Lycidas is dead." And in the following, from an unknown hand, brown is thus... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...Syrinx your Pan's mistress were, Yet Syrinx well might wait on her. Such a rural queen MINOR POEMS. ET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...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 not sing... | |
 | 1850 - 640 pages
...alacrity than even she had been known to do upon many a worthier subject. CHAPTER VIII. Yet once more, oh, ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me I MUST beg of you to slip over a portion of time, and to suppose about two years passed over our heads,... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1844 - 464 pages
...MERCHANT'S CLERK. " Yet once more ! O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never eere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And,...dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ! For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime — Young Lycidasl"* LOOK, reader, once more with the eye and heart... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...note 4, p. 32. 6 Bright-harnessed — equipped in bright armour. LYCID AS.1 ABRIDGED. YET once more,2 O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with...dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. 1 This monody was written... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...written, like the preceding ones, at Horton, in Buckinghamshire. Yet once more, 0 ye laurels, and (face more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come...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 not sing... | |
 | John D'Alton - 1845 - 360 pages
...friendship, the immortal bard thus touchingly laments his friend: " Yet once more, oh ye laurels I and once more, Ye myrtles brown with ivy never sere...mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compel me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead — dead ere his prime — Young Lycidas... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...Buckinghamshire. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never seer, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And...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 not sing... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...inspiration taught ; Where each poetic votary sings In heavenly strains of heavenly things. BP. KEN. LYCIDAS. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...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 not sing... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...inspiration taught; Where each poetic votary sings In heavenly strains of heavenly things. LYCIDAS. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...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 not sing... | |
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