 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. T3itter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb...He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...berries harsh and crude; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...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 watery bier Unwept, and welter... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your bcrrios harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwjept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...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...his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : WV> would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew, Himself, to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : o Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...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 watery bier Unwept, and welter... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Hitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb...he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear Compels me...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 wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...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 watery bier Unwept, and welter... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...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...he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...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...knew, Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
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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... 
