 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...  The British Poets - Page 1171866Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...Jonson's Syrinx. MINOR POEMS. LYCIDA S. A MONODY. In tl1is MONODY, the Anthor bewails a learned Friend,1 unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester...foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their highth. YET once more,2 0 ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...Jonson's Syrinx. MINOR POEMS. LY 0 IDA S. A MONODY. In this MONODT, the Author bewails a learned Friend,1 unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester...foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their highth. YET once more,2 O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to... | |
 | John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...the Author bewails a learned Friend,1 unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the IrUh Seas, 1637. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their highth. YET once more,2 O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...And I with thee will choose to live. ...j 78 MILTOM : ,; ' : LYCIDAS. Yet once more, O ye'Laurels, and once more, Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere,...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... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...bewails the loss of his friend Edward Kitty, who was drowned on his passage from Chester to Ireland in 1637, and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted...to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...Elegy; but I must forbear, lest those remarks should run to an extent disproportioned to ¡ta length. In this Monody the author bewails a learned friend, unfortunately...foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their highth. YET once more, 0 ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere," I come to... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...poetry wu XVII LYCIDAS.* [In this monody the author bewails a learned friend, Mr. Edward King, who was unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish seas, 1637, and by occasion foretels the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. ] YET once more, O ye laurels! and... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...prophetic strain. These pleasures, Melancholy, give, And I with thoo will choose to live. " LYCIDAS." In this monody the author bewails a learned friend, unfortunately...the Irish seas, 1637, and by occasion foretells the ruiu of our corrupted clergy, then In their height. YET once more, 0 ye laurels, and once more, Ye... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish seas, 1337, and by occasion foretels the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height.] YET once more, O ye laurels ! and once moie Ye myrtles hrown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...1645, Milton left no doubt as to his intention. "In this Monody," he then wrote, by way of heading, "the Author bewails a learned friend, unfortunately...ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height? Taking these words as our warrant, and leaving Milton in the meantime busy in preparations for that... | |
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