 | C. F. Childs - Education - 1867 - 262 pages
...death of the body, we see Him who gives everlasting life to the spirit. APPENDIX. " Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Scatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compel me to... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1867 - 360 pages
...must it maintain. A. Maroel! LYCIDAS Elegy on a Friend drowned in the Irish Channel Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with...berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude M Shatter your -leaves before the mellowing year, bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear Compels... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...1G37, and by occasion fortells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height YET once more, 0 ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy...rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. T3itter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead,... | |
 | 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...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not... | |
 | George Steiner - Philology - 1984 - 448 pages
...in its causes and consequences, this dimming of recognitions is easy to demonstrate: Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...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. Laurel, myrtle... | |
 | James B. Adamson - Religion - 1989 - 582 pages
...adjectives in James than in the two Pauline letters together. TABLES MILTON, LYCIDAS Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, ye myrtles brown with...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? He knew, himself, to sing, and built the lofty rime. He must not float... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd n 26 Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not... | |
 | Reynolds Price - Family & Relationships - 1995 - 372 pages
...himself for the steeplechase run-through that had never failed to move him deeply. "Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. " From there on, along the crowded unpredictable way to its visionary end — with Lycidas rescued... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...triumphant verse and immortality — must again have their unripe berries disturbed: Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime. He must not float... | |
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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 Compels... 
