 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or...whitethorn blows ; — Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds' ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worn to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers...blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear !" After the fine apostrophe on Fame which Phoebus is invoked to utter, the poet proceeds : — " Oh... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...no more be seen, Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose. Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or...blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. [deep Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? For neither... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...no more be teen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lay«. As killing as the canker to the rose, shepherds' ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd... | |
 | 1847 - 488 pages
...seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers,...blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear," &c. "In tins poem," says Johnson, " there is no nature, for there is no truth." This is pretty well... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1849 - 290 pages
...seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worn to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers...blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear !" After the fine apostrophe on Fame which Phoebus is invoked to utter, the poet proceeds : — " Oh... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or...shepherd's ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? [deep For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...joyous leaves to thy .-.ft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weaning herds that graze ; Or frost to flowers, that their...ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas 1 For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or...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, Where your old... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or...ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ah me ! I fondly... | |
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And all their echoes mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose... 
