 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...Irish seas* 1637, and by occasion foretels the rufn of our corrupted clergyt then in their height. YET once more, O ye Laurels, and" once more Ye Myrtles...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And, with t'orc'd fingers rude, Shatu r your leaves before the mellowing year : 5 Bitter constraint, and sad... | |
 | John Walker - 1814 - 548 pages
...Milton's Juvenile Poems, I venture to send you a few remarks which were made when I perused it. THW Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And, with t'orc'd 'fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Lycidas, ver. I. Et r<«j 0 laitri,... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
...occasion fortels the rnin of onr corrnpted cler. gy9 then in their height. YET once more, O ye Lanrels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere, I come to plnck yonr berries harsh and crnde, And, with fore' d finfers rnde, Shatter yonr leaves before the... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...ihec will choose to live. 752 BOOK IV. SENTIMENTAL, LYRICAL, AND LUDICROUS. § 3. LYCIDAS. MILTON. YBT once more, O ye Laurels, and once more, Ye Myrtles...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year; Bitter constraint, ami sad occasion... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...prophetic strain. These pleasures, Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. LYCIDAS. Yrr e perfection ! therein Man Plac'd in a Paradise, by our exile Hade never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...Irish Seas, 1637. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their kighth. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...learned friend, who," on his passage from Chester to Ireland, was drowned in the Irish seas, 1637.] 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...August 10, 1637. Mr. King was a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. YET once more, O ye lanrels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crnde ; And, with forced fingers rnde, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...Manuscript appears to have been written in November, 16i,7, when he was almost twenty-nine years old : YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, and these words in the printed titles of this poem, and by occasion. fvretels the ruin of our corrupted... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...prophetic strain. Those pleasures, Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. LYCIDAS. ir church, in last resort, should judge the sense. But first they would ass scar, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves... | |
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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. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels... 
