 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...: 3 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season flue : For Lyciclas 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... | |
 | William Hooper - 1859 - 58 pages
...enough to leave some memorials of his genius, but, alas! not long enough for our fame or for his own. " For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime — Young Lycidas — and hath not left his peer 1" That night was one of the Nodes Atticce or Ambrosianw, if you choose so to name them, which signalized... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 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... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - Classical poetry - 1862 - 220 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...care, which £ ves a peculiar propriety to several passages in t Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peei : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must... | |
 | L. P. Wilkinson - History - 1969 - 392 pages
...Sometimes the narrator repeats the name itself, as Hylas' at Ecl. 6. 43-4 and Eurydice's at 525-7. Cf. For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. pardon'. But all along we have been looking through Virgil's eyes ; and Otis is right in seeing here... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...immortal things may be revealed. But we cannot see this promise now, so deep is the speaker's sorrow: 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 flote upon his watry... | |
 | George Steiner - Philology - 1984 - 448 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. Laurel, myrtle and ivy have their... | |
 | James B. Adamson - Religion - 1989 - 582 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 built the lofty rime. He must not float upon his watery... | |
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