 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...  Minor Poems - Page 58by John Milton - 1914 - 126 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Ellms - 1841 - 606 pages
...famine, compose this volume, prepared for your perusal. Kix's Mate, in Boston Harbor, at low wator. * He must not float upon his watery bier, Unwept, and welter to the parching wind. Let our frail thoughts dally wi'h false surmise, Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash... | |
 | 1841 - 412 pages
...thrilling voice of the singer is hushed ; " For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his primp, Young Lyridus, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing : " "Peace to his memory! the graceful scholar! the eloquent speaker! the warm-hearted,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year . strives to save the hallow Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 10 He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year . s '8 D * ɐ B҂ ( - , Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 1 0 He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 838 pages
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 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...berries harsh and crude ; And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas Î He knew Himself to sing, ami build the lofty rhyme. lie must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1844 - 464 pages
...berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear, Compels me...For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime — Young Lycidasl"* LOOK, reader, once more with the eye and heart of sympathy, at a melancholy page in the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...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... | |
 | William Harmon - 1992 - 1176 pages
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