 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due, For 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 - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due, For 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 - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, ed to Walsingliam, Chapman states that he was 'mark'd...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,... | |
 | 1848 - 544 pages
...Hare's colleague, and regret that the greatest portraying hand of this age did not draw the picture. " For Lycidas is dead, — dead ere his prime, Young...Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sinz for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. — How well could I have spared... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 420 pages
...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,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear 26 Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, 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... | |
 | Elisa New - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 294 pages
...elegiac 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... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...'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... | |
 | Greg Dening - History - 1994 - 470 pages
...— 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...Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier, Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the... | |
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Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. 
