 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...  The first (-sixth) part of Miscellany poems, publ. by Mr. Dryden - Page 162by Miscellany poems - 1716Full view - About this book
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 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 year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion drear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 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 year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, ere his prime, Young... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 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 year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 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 year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 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 year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1854 - 526 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh aiid crude; And, with forced 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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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 year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 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 year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 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 year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,... | |
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