 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...  Golden Leaves from the British Poets - Page 40by John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 546 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...LYCIDAS A MONODY on the death of EDWARD KINC who was shipwrecked in the Irish Seas. BY JOHN MILTON. JL ET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...Irish seas* 1637, and by occasion foretels the rufn of our corrupted clergyt then in their height. YET once more, O ye Laurels, and" once more Ye Myrtles...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And, with t'orc'd fingers rude, Shatu r your leaves before the mellowing year : 5 Bitter constraint, and sad... | |
 | John Walker - 1814 - 548 pages
...Milton's Juvenile Poems, I venture to send you a few remarks which were made when I perused it. THW Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And, with t'orc'd 'fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Lycidas, ver. I. Et r<«j 0 laitri,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...ihec will choose to live. 752 BOOK IV. SENTIMENTAL, LYRICAL, AND LUDICROUS. § 3. LYCIDAS. MILTON. YBT once more, O ye Laurels, and once more, Ye Myrtles...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year; Bitter constraint, ami sad occasion... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Irish Seas, 1637. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their highth. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...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... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...Irish seas, 1637.] 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,...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crnde ; And, with forced fingers rnde, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter...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... | |
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