 | 1847 - 482 str.
...mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead — dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas,...He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and weltei to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 str.
...dead ere his prime, , Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas t vantes no mo At that time ; for him luste to ride...node of grene ; A shefe of peacock arwes bright and Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin, and... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 str.
...mellowing year : Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due, For Lycidas is dead ; dead ere his prime — Young Lycidas,...his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 88 LYCIDAS. Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 str.
...mellowing year : Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due, For Lycidas is dead ; dead ere his prime — Young Lycidas,...his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 88 LYCIDAS. Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 str.
...mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For s 'mark'd by age for aims of greater weight.' This...written in 1599. It contains the following fanciful J He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 420 str.
...year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead, ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas 1 he knew, Himself, to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,... | |
 | Greg Dening - 1992 - 468 str.
...that was not transformed into verse. Peter was her Lycidas. John Milton had said it before her: For Lycidas is dead, dead 'ere his prime, Young Lycidas...Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the need of some melodious tear. ['Lycidas' I:i] The tide of Nessie's possessing literature rose with the... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 str.
...Compels me to dislurb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime Young Lycidas, and bath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build we lofty rhyme. He musJ notjiote upon his watry bear Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 str.
...'Lycidas', appropriately enough since the subject of the elegy, Edward King, had written poetry:21 Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. (lines 10-11) The image of Orpheus is appropriately present yet again: What could the Muse herself... | |
 | Elisa New - 1993 - 294 str.
...form. That form invented and perfected the agonized cry of the witness for the singular martyr ("For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, / Young Lycidas! And hath not left his peer"). Whitman's elegy renounces the sacral object in the very form that serves that sacral object, renounces... | |
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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... 
