 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | 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 and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...before the 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, 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 float upon his... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...before the 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, 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 upon his watery... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...before the 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, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? he well knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lyddas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas7. He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his wat'ry... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...before the mellowing year. 5 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: Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his... | |
 | Christian Riegel - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 310 pages
...before the 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, and hath not left his peer Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his wat'ry... | |
 | 2005 - 334 pages
...before the 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, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his wat'ry... | |
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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 : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 
