LycidasLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 28 pages |
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adjective adverb allusion ANNOTATED Arethuse Bayona Bellerus body of Lycidas broad rumour called canker canker-worm Christ's Christ's College cloth colour Comp Comus Damotas derived ditties drove a-field E. T. STEVENS elegy ENGLISH AUTHORS fable Faerie Queene Fame flocks flower Galilean lake Gentlemen of Verona glistering foil guarded Mount Hebrides Hence Hippotades Il Penseroso JOHN MILTON Jove King L'Allegro lamentation Latin pastoral poets laureate laurel lawns mantle meaning Mincius mood Mount Mount Helicon Muse Namancos Nominative Absolute nuptial song nymphs oaten flute obsolete Old Eng Orpheus Panope pansy Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Penseroso phrase poem poet alludes poet probably poet's poetic poetry praise Professor Masson's Analysis purple rath recks river river Cam sacred satyrs sense sewed Shakespeare sheep-hook shepherd sing sounding seas Spenser star stormy Hebrides sultry horn swain tears thin-spun thou unexpressive verb white pink white-thorn winds wizard stream word
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Page 30 - And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...
Page 39 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 26 - Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood: But now my oat proceeds, And listens to the herald of the sea, That came in Neptune's plea. 90 He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain?
Page 24 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days: But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 36 - To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise...
Page 21 - Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream-- Ay me! I fondly dream, Had ye been there; for what could that have done?
Page 14 - 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 me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 40 - Thus sang the uncouth swain to the oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with sandals gray; He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay...
Page 25 - O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds! That strain I heard was of a higher mood: But now my oat proceeds, And listens to the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea; He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain?
Page 35 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears ; Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.