 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1871 - 376 pages
...thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return ! Thee, shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn : The willows and the hazel-copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays." The same... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return ! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown,...all their echoes, mourn. The willows, and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 288 pages
...transferring the mourning activity from himself to nature: "Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and desert Caves,/ With wild Thyme and the gadding Vine o'ergrown,/ And all their echoes mourn" (11. 39-41). The blight is on nature, associated with the speaker only through the remote figure of... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves With wilde thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown And all their echoes mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and desert Caves, With wild Thyme and the gadding Vine o'ergrown,...all their echoes mourn. The Willows and the Hazel Copses green Shall now no more be seen, Fanning their joyous Leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 274 pages
...thou art gone. Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown....all their echoes mourn: The willows, and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. There is a delicate... | |
 | R. Clifton Spargo - History - 2004 - 338 pages
...thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and desert Caves, With wild Thyme and the gadding Vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn. (37-41) Not only do we not believe that grief was ever as general as this, we are not supposed to believe... | |
 | 2005 - 334 pages
...thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn. Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 66 pages
...now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown,...all their echoes, mourn. The willows, and the hazel copses green, Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or... | |
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Oaten Flute, Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel, From the glad sound would not be absent long, And old Damoetas loved to hear our song. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return! Thee, Shepherd, thee... 
