 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. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...  The Book of English Elegies - Page 150edited by - 1879 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1707 - 480 pages
...Seas, 1637. And by eccajion foretells the ruin of our corruftedClergie^ then in their height. YE T once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never fear, J come to pluck your Berries harfli and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves... | |
 | Miscellany poems - 1716 - 426 pages
...Te Myrtles brown, with Ivy never-fear, I come to pluck your Berries harfh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and fad occafion dear, Compels me to difturb your feafon due : for Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime... | |
 | John Milton - 1753 - 418 pages
...before the mellowing year. Bitter conftraintx and fad occafion desr, Compels me to diflurb your feafon due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hatli not left his peer: Who would not fing for Lycidas ? he knew f Himfelf to fing, and build the... | |
 | John Milton - 1759 - 414 pages
...IriJIi feas, 1637, and by occafwn foretels the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their highth. YET once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never fere, I come to pluck your berries harfh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 890 pages
...Irifh feas, 1637, and by occafion foretels the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their highth. YET once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never fere, I come to pluck your berries harm and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves... | |
 | 1781 - 512 pages
...choice began, And lofe, with pride, the lover in the man. LYCIDAS*. A MONODY. BY MR. JOHN MILTON. YE T once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never fere, I come to pluck your berries harfli and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 544 pages
...before the mellowing year. Bitter conftraint and fad occafion dear, Compels me to difturb your feafon due : For Lycidas is dead, dead e're his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not kft his peer ; Who would not fing for Lycidas ? he knew Himfelf to, fing, and build the lofty rhyme... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 492 pages
...confidered as funereal greens. This whatever defe&s it may have, is certainly poetical ; Vv I, Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never fear, J come to pluck your berries harm and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves... | |
 | John Milton - 1785 - 698 pages
...Irifli feas, 1637. And by occalion foretels the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their highth. YET once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never fere, »»• Henry Mbre, who perhaps were two the moft able matters in Latinity which the college... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...Irish seas, 1637, and by oecasion foretells tht ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in tbeirbightb. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles...never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and erude, And with forc'd ringers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint,... | |
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