 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the Saered Well, 1 5 That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin,...vain, and coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favor my destin'd urn, 20 And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud t For we were nurst... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...for Lycidas ? be knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rbime. He must not flote upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without...vain, and coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favor my destin'd urn, And as he passes turn, And bid fait peace be to my sable shroud... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. lie must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter...vain, and coy excuse : So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd urn j 30 And, as he passes, turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to...from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin, arid somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse : So may some gentle... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. •VOL. IV. N Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to...and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of sojne melodious tear. vob. jv. к J LYCIDAS. The willows, and the hazel copses green, Shall now no... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and...vain, and coy excuse; So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd urn, And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...with all that were on hnf.nl, August 10, 1637. Mr. Kin;, wai a fellow of Christ's Cortege, Cambridge. ^He must not float upon his watery bier <• Unwept,...^~ That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring f> .Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. ^ Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse : i . So... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to...trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death lucky words favour my destin'd um ; 2O And, as he passes, turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud.... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to...spring ; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. 1 Edward King, Esq. the son of Sir John King, knight, secretary for Ireland. He was sailing from Chester... | |
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Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? 
