 | 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 - English poetry - 1759 - 420 pages
...Iri/Ji 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 harm and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1778 - 776 pages
...with that awful grandeur and fober dignity* by which the elegiac mufe is particularly diftinguilhtd. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, «ith ivy never fere. 1 come to pluck your berries hatlh and crude, And with forc'd fingers mde, Shatter... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 334 pages
...Irifh feas, 1637, and by occafion foretels the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their highth. YE T 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... | |
 | English poetry - 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 - English poetry - 1785 - 492 pages
...perhaps 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 - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...Virgil's epithet is PARNASSIUS. In the text, he joins the Myrtle and the Laurel, as in LYCIDAS, v. I. Yet once more, O ye LAURELS, and once more, Ye MYRTLES brown, &c.— — Secret! hxc aliqua mundi de parte videbc^ Quantum fata finunt : et tota mente ferenum Ridens,... | |
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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. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels... 
