 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 str.
...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...Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 str.
...with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and snd t Matthew thought better ; for Matthew thought right,...a chariot so trim and so tight, [pass : That extre rhime. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 str.
...st. 53. Love of yourself, she said, and dear comtraint, Let me not sleep, but waste the weary night Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas...Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, 1O. Who would... | |
 | George Clinton - 1825 - 826 str.
...own,) that event, which, more than any other of a like nature, plunged the whole nation into grief. ' Lycidas is dead ! dead ere his prime. Young Lycidas...knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.' And yet, rife as monodies are upon less important and imperious occasions, none have been produced... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 str.
...berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas...Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 str.
...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...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier 2 myrtles brown]... | |
 | John Jebb (bp. of Limerick.) - 1837 - 486 str.
...other, as being the genuine effusion of pure friendship, and unaffected piety. JJ Trin. Coll. 1799. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...prime ; Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. MILTON. I was yesterday employed, in turning over the various heap of papers, which compose my Registry.... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 str.
...berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd lingers 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 rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 str.
...berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd lingers 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 rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter... | |
 | Benjamin Davis Winslow - 1841 - 410 str.
...ivy nevar sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Scatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint,...he knew Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. * * * * * we were nurst upon the self-same bill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade and rill. Together... | |
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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... 
