 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1901 - 806 pages
...dull sweets of Rhime. Once more, hail and farewel; farewel you young. But ah ! too short, Afarcellus of our Tongue ; Thy Brows with Ivy, and with Laurels bound ; But Fate and gloomy Night encompass thee around. • — DRYDEN, JOHN, 1684, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham. Inspir'd above, and... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 pages
...the dull sweets of rhyme. Once more, hail, and farewell ! farewell, thou young, But ah ! too short, Marcellus of our tongue ! Thy brows with ivy and with laurels bound ; But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around. For the next twenty years, in spite of his congenial irregularity of perform-... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 pages
...Once more, hail, and farewell ! farewell, thou young, But ah ! too short, Marcellus of our tongue I Thy brows with ivy and with laurels bound ; But fate and gloomy night encompass thce around. For the next twenty years, in spite of his congenial irregularity of perform-... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1903 - 480 pages
...the dull sweets of rhyme. Once more, hail, and farewell ! farewell, thou young, liut ah ! too short, Marcellus of our tongue ! Thy brows with ivy and with laurels bound ; ]Jut fate and gloomy ni"ht encompass thee around. For the next twenty years, in spite of his congenial... | |
 | Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro - 1906 - 154 pages
...to the dull sweets of rhyme. once more hail and farewell, farewell, thou young, but ah ! too short Marcellus of our tongue, thy brows with ivy and with laurels bound ; but fate and gloomy night encompass thee around. LII. Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post : what fitter sacrifice for Denham's... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 pages
...to the dull sweets of rhyme. Once more, hail and farewell! farewell, thou young, But ah! too short, Marcellus of our tongue! Thy brows with ivy, and with laurels bound; gloomy night encompass thee around. J. Dryden RESTORATION VERSE On the Death of Waller T TOW to thy... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...write to the dull sweets of Ehime. Once more, hail and farewel; farewel you young, But ah ! too short, Marcellus of our Tongue ; Thy Brows with Ivy, and with Laurels bound ; But Fate and gloomy Night encompass thee around. — DRYDEN, JOHN, 1684, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham. Inspir'd above, and could... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 pages
...dull sweets of rhyme- 15 Once more, hail, and farewell ! farewell, thou young, But ah ! too short, Marcellus ° of our tongue ! Thy brows with ivy and with laurels bound ; But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around. DANIEL DEFOE ° A FOOTPRINT ON THE SHORE IT happened one day about noon, going... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 386 pages
...to the dull sweets of rhyme. Once more, hail and farewell; farewell, thou young, But ah too short, Marcellus of our tongue; Thy brows with ivy and with laurels bound; But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around. The poem is artificial, perhaps (like Lycidas)\ it is full of echoes; and its... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1924 - 52 pages
...the dull sweets of rhyme. Once more, hail, and farewell ; farewell, thou young, But ah! too short, Marcellus of our tongue! Thy brows with ivy and with laurels bound; But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around. From the perfection of such an elegy we cannot detract; the lack of nebula is... | |
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Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their prime, Still showed a quickness ; and maturing time But mellows what we write to the dull sweets of rhyme. Once more, hail, and farewell ; farewell, thou young, But ah! too short, Marcellus of our tongue!... 
