 | English literature - 1847 - 482 pages
...answer these criticisms, we need merely reprint part of the poem itself. Milton thus begins : — " Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pick your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude. Shatter your leaves... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...Irifh Seas, 1637. And by occafan foretells the ruine of our corrupted Clergie then in their height. )ET once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never fear, I com to pluck your Berries harm and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...on the structure of the pastoral. He called on the shepherds and on all nature to mourn with him. " 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 forc'd fingers rude, Scatter your leaves... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...Inform'd by thee, might know : if eke thou seek'st Aught not surpassing human measure, say." LYCIDAS. 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... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. DROWNED IN HIS PASSAGE FROM CHESTER ON THE IRISH SEAS, 1G37. 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... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637. And by occasion 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 pluck your berries... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish 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 pluck your berries... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Irish seas, 1637, and by occasion foretels the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. ] 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... | |
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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. 
