 Shatter your leaves 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...  The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 95edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1999 - 1024 pages
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 | Kim Wheatley - 1999 - 292 pages
...played up the literary associations of the poet's death by quoting the following lines from Lyddas: Who would not sing for Lycidas? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime; He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter in the parching wind Without the meed... | |
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