 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....  English Poems - Page 77by John Milton - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...Elegy on a Friend drowned in the Irish Channel Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb...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 bier Unwept, and welter... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1862 - 220 pages
...harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb...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 bier Unwept, and welter... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...designed for holy orders and the pastoral care, which £ ves a peculiar propriety to several passages in t Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas...ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peei : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must... | |
 | 1863 - 982 pages
...harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb...his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : 5 Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. Me must not... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...called a weltering motion, with the lines rocking and repeating, as if in some directionless agony: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime Young Lycidas,...not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas? This sort of repetition, inherited from previous pastoral elegists,13 becomes by Milton's accentuation... | |
 | George Steiner - 1984 - 448 pages
...harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb...his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. Laurel, myrtle and ivy have their specific emblematic life... | |
 | James B. Adamson - 1989 - 582 pages
...harsh and crude, and with forced fingers rude shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear compels me to disturb...his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? He knew, himself, to sing, and built the lofty rime. He must not float upon his watery bier unwept or welter... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter . v . 0 26 Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | Greg Dening - 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...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 bier, Unwept, and welter... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...harsh and crude. And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb...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 wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter... | |
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