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... Lycidas · FromComus ' Sonnets Dryden Veni Creator LANK 57 60 62 65 67 72 78 84 87 5 8 8 3 5 7 85 91 POPE . Messiah 93 • From the Rape of the Lock ' . 97 From the Elegy ' • 98 · From the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot . ' 100 THOMPSON . From ...
... Lycidas · FromComus ' Sonnets Dryden Veni Creator LANK 57 60 62 65 67 72 78 84 87 5 8 8 3 5 7 85 91 POPE . Messiah 93 • From the Rape of the Lock ' . 97 From the Elegy ' • 98 · From the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot . ' 100 THOMPSON . From ...
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... every herb that sips the dew ; Till old Experience do attain To something like prophetic strain . These pleasures , Melancholy , give , And I with thee will choose to live . LYCIDAS . Yet once more , O ye Laurels , MILTON . 717.
... every herb that sips the dew ; Till old Experience do attain To something like prophetic strain . These pleasures , Melancholy , give , And I with thee will choose to live . LYCIDAS . Yet once more , O ye Laurels , MILTON . 717.
Page 78
... Lycidas is dead , dead ere his 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 his watry bier Unwept , and welter to the ...
... Lycidas is dead , dead ere his 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 his watry bier Unwept , and welter to the ...
Page 79
... Lycidas , thy loss to shepherd's ear . Where were ye , Nymphs , when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep , Where your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on ...
... Lycidas , thy loss to shepherd's ear . Where were ye , Nymphs , when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep , Where your old bards , the famous Druids , lie , Nor on ...
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... Lycidas , your sorrow , is not dead , Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day - star in the ocean bed , And yet anon repairs his drooping head , And tricks his beams , and with new - spangled ore Flames in the ...
... Lycidas , your sorrow , is not dead , Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day - star in the ocean bed , And yet anon repairs his drooping head , And tricks his beams , and with new - spangled ore Flames in the ...
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