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...berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...? He knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier 2 myrtles brown] Hor. Od. i.25. 17. ' Pulla magis atque...

...berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...? He knew 10 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...

...who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark.'" MERCHANT OF VENICE. " Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas,...his peer, Who 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...

...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. 8 myrtles brown] Hor. Od. i. 25. 17. ' Pidla magis atque myrto.' Warton. 8 dead] ' Phillisides is dead.'...

...berries harsh and crude; And , with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lyejdasis dead, dcjul -Pta ^ Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas...

...it will not be denied us to utter the expression of our sorrow over his early grave — For Lvcidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. The poems which Mr. Cooke left behind him are not the effusions of a mere versifier. He did not write,...

...temple of our devotions, but now thrown down and marred by death ! " Thou shalt not float upon thy watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the meed of one melodious tear.' Departed spirit, that even here wast clothed with light and power from on high...

...friend. It had its inception in a mood german to that of the poet over Lycidas : — "Lycidas is dead and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas?" * We know not but that we may venture to say, that there is one individual, at least, to whom we could...

...berries harsh and crude : And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear, Compels me...his peer : Who 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...