 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep,1 Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona2 high, Nor yet where Deva3 spreads her wisard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...shepherd's ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep,...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ah me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...shepherds' ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep,...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ah me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there : for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...of prejudice : "Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep,...Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high," &c. E'en pine- fraught Msenalus and Lycseus' rocks, Ice-cold, bewept. The sheep, too, stand around... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...white-thorn blows; Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep,...famous Druids, lie; Nor on the shaggy top of Mona 1 high, Nor yet where l)eva s spreads her wizard stream: Ay me! I fondly dream Such, Lycidas, thy loss... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep ю Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas?1 For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your...famous druids, lie ; Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high ; r Nor yet where l)eva spreads her wisard stream.' • Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Te rnœslœ vnlucres.... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...harsh and crude: Where were ye Nymphs when the remorseless deep Clos'd o're the head of your lov'd Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old Bards, the famous Druids ly, Nor on the shaggy top of Mono high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream: Ay me, I fondly... | |
 | William Blake - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 326 pages
...The Chiselden Hills are in Wiltshire, as is Avebury. 79 Mona is the Isle of Anglesea. Cf. Lycidas: 'the steep / Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, / Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high" (52-4). Merritt Y. Hughes (lain.) cites Camden's Chorographical Description of Britain on Mona's once... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...of the throne of God." This is not the only hill of difficulty in "Lycidas." "Where were ye Nymphs?" "For neither were ye playing on the steep / Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie." There are at least half a dozen conjectures as to what that steep is. Passing from Latin or Greek to... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...shepherd's ear. Where were ye nymphs when the remorseless deep 50 Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep....high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself... | |
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Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there... 
