 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For 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.  The english anthology. - Page 451793Full view - About this book
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season lm ; three on the naked lime Trembling, — and one upon the old oak tree ! sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery... | |
 | Bessie Rayner Belloc - 1856 - 132 pages
...FIDELIO 91 THE PORTRAIT 97 ABSENCE 100 THE SHIPWRECK ,, .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. 102 COR CORDIUM. " 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 watery... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1856 - 588 pages
...drowned before he could fulfil his morning promise and give the world example of his genius : — •' For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer." How richly, in the elegiac strains called forth by that event, has the immortal mourner proved for... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left Ms peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he Icnew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.1 He... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 466 pages
...As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, And when 1 ope my lips let no dog bark." Merchant of Venice. Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer, \Vho would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...the mellowing year: S Bilter constraint, and sail orcnsion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not \ei\ his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...the mellowing year : 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young...Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For 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.1 He must not float upon his... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...before the mellowing year Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For 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 watery... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...mellowing year : Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due, For Lycidaa 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 watery... | |
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