...from which was blowing &,fi\\ in at the open windows. PART THE SECOND. " She must not float upon her watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of gome melodioua tear." LTCTJUO. " Sea, and hill, and wood, With all the numberless goings on of life,...

...for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without...spring ; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the .string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destined...

...would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching...spring ; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string ; Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse : So may some gentle muse With lucky words favour my destined...

...would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew 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 tear. wont to mingle with its serious strain. But for this he was compensated hy the brightest hues of fancy,...

...elegists,13 becomes by Milton's accentuation a very theme of the poem, a sign of the poem's anguish: Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somwhat loudly sweep the string. [15-17] Yet the repeated "Begin" contains the stabilizing power of...

...woman. But we do not know. We "do not know what "the sacred well" is in the invocation in "Lycidas": "Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well / That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring." It could be the Pierian spring, with "the seat of Jove" being Mount Olympus. It could be Hippocrene,...

...scorner of pastoralism by alluding to Hesiod's Theogony. That poem is echoed in the swain's appeal to the "Sisters of the sacred well, / That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring" (15-16). B Hesiod relates, at considerable length, how the Muses "by their singing / delight the great...

...would not sing for Lycidas? he knew 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 need of some melodious tear. ['Lycidas' Li] The tide of Nessie's possessing literature rose with the...

...for Lycidas? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without...spring. Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favor my destin'd...

...would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the meed of some melodious tear. Fourteen lines of verbal music, solemn yet subtly varied. The magic lies chiefly in tonal harmony....