 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...Inform'd by thee, might know : if eke thou seek'st Aught not surpassing human measure, say." LYCIDAS. 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 dead,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...FiP; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HoPM; JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEY; OBS; PPP; SeCePo; TEP; TrGrPo Lyctdas 25 ph never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Irish Seas, 1637. And by occasion foretels the ruine of our corrupted Clergy then in their height. Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never^sear, I com to pluck your Berries oars]) and crude, And with f ore dfngers rude, Shatter your... | |
 | Richard Todd, Douglas C. Wilson - 1992 - 266 pages
...lines; Craig beginning his consideration of Milton's poetry with an extended reading out of "Lycidas" ("Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more/ Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere") ; Brower imitating the finicky, weary cadences of the lady in TS Eliot's "Portrait of a Lady": So intimate,... | |
 | Reynolds Price - 1995 - 372 pages
...1637." Then he braced himself for the steeplechase run-through that had never failed to move him deeply. "Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. " From there on, along the crowded unpredictable way to its visionary end — with Lycidas rescued... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...conceiving; And so sepulcher'd in such pomp dost lie. That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. LYCIDAS Yet 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, and sad occasion... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...ancient symbols of triumphant verse and immortality — must again have their unripe berries disturbed: 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 dead,... | |
 | David Solway - 1997 - 340 pages
...primary issue in current educational debate, I am put embarrassingly in mind of the exordium to Lycidas: Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sear, I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude ... Will we never have done with it? We struggle... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...Irish Seas, 1637. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy then in their height. 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 forc'd f1ngers rude Shatter your... | |
 | Richard Bradford - 2001 - 236 pages
...Memory of WBYeats' follow a similar line). The opening is at once conventional and slightly puzzling. Yet once more. O ye laurels, and once more. Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, 1 come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. And with forced fingers rude. Shatter your leaves before... | |
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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... 
