Selected Shorter Poems and Prose WritingsIncludes Comus, Lycidas, and extracts from the prose, such as the early pamphlet, Of Reformation, and the celebrated Areopagitica in defence of freedom of the press. |
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Page 56
... Lycidas is dead , dead ere his prime Young Lycidas , and hath not left his peer . Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he well knew Himself to sing , and build the lofty rhyme . He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept , and welter to ...
... Lycidas is dead , dead ere his prime Young Lycidas , and hath not left his peer . Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he well knew Himself to sing , and build the lofty rhyme . He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept , and welter to ...
Page 60
... Lycidas your sorrow is not dead , Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor : So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed , And yet anon repairs his drooping head And tricks his beams and with new - spangl❜d ore Flames in the forehead of ...
... Lycidas your sorrow is not dead , Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor : So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed , And yet anon repairs his drooping head And tricks his beams and with new - spangl❜d ore Flames in the forehead of ...
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... Lycidas remains an eccentric and disturb- ing example of the genre , and critics who have tried to answer Johnson's charge of insincerity by claiming that it is entirely traditional , a polished rehearsal of conventional pieties and ele ...
... Lycidas remains an eccentric and disturb- ing example of the genre , and critics who have tried to answer Johnson's charge of insincerity by claiming that it is entirely traditional , a polished rehearsal of conventional pieties and ele ...
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An epitaph on the admirable dramatic poet | 27 |
Lycidas 1638 | 56 |
from Areopagitica 1644 | 85 |
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