 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...for Lycidas ? 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 some melodious tear. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...for Lycidas ? 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 some melodious tear. wont to mingle with its serious strain. But for this he was compensated hy the... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...for Lycidas? 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 some melodious tear. Begin, then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...not left 1 his peer : Himself 10 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 some melodious tear. Beghvmen, Sixers ofthe safjred well,' IS That from' beneath 'the seat/ of Jove... | |
 | Bessie Rayner Belloc - 1856 - 132 pages
...for Lycidas ? 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 some melodious tear." GABRIEL, " The Angel Gabriel was sent from God." — ST. LUKE. I KNOW a house,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...for Lycidas? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not Uoat upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind. Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, 15 That from beneath the seat of Jove... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...for Lycidas ? 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 some melodious tear.*' Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...for Lycidas? 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 some melodious tear." The song which opens thus is not, it is to be remembered, the song of Milton... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...for Lycidas ? 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 some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well That from beneath the seat of Jove doth... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1862 - 230 pages
...for Lycidas? 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 some melodious tear. LYCIDAS. Tf N ! iterum laurus, iterum salvete myricee Pallentes, nullique hederse... | |
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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... 
