 | Miscellany poems - 1716 - 426 sivua
...Te Myrtles brown, with Ivy never-fear, I come to pluck your Berries harfh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and fad occafion dear, Compels me to difturb your feafon due : for Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime... | |
 | John Milton - 1753 - 418 sivua
...before the mellowing year. Bitter conftraintx and fad occafion desr, Compels me to diflurb your feafon due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hatli not left his peer: Who would not fing for Lycidas ? he knew f Himfelf to fing, and build the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 sivua
...mellowing year. 4 Bitter conftraint, and fad occafion dear, Compels rfce to difturb your feafon due i For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer i Who would not fing for Lycidas ? he knew to Himfelf to fing, and build the lofty rhyme. He muft not... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 544 sivua
...before the mellowing year. Bitter conftraint and fad occafion dear, Compels me to difturb your feafon due : For Lycidas is dead, dead e're his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not kft his peer ; Who would not fing for Lycidas ? he knew Himfelf to, fing, and build the lofty rhyme... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 sivua
...oecasion foretells tht ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in tbeirbightb. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and erude, And with forc'd ringers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 sivua
...Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere, [ come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd lingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : tor Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, ' oung Lycidas, and... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 sivua
...laudandum ! For the death of such a man our eyes are still wet with tears, our hearts still big with sighs. Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime Young Lycidas, and hath not left hii peer. But why tears, why sighs, for one who lived in purity, and died in peace ; who, from a world... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 sivua
...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 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 sivua
...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 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 sivua
...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 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... | |
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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. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels... 
