 For so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled, Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming...  L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas - Page 55by John Milton - 1900 - 130 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Lillie Craik - 1864 - 406 pages
...The readers of Milton will remember his " Ay me! I fondly dream, Had we been there," and, again, " Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away," &c. (Lycidas 56 and 154). So also in Comus 511, and Samson Agonistes 330. Even in Paradise Lost we... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1865 - 216 pages
...vultu Verbascum, ac tristem si quid sibi legit amictum. To strow the laureate hearse where Lyeid lies. For so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts...whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where ere thy bones are hurled, Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou, perhaps, under the... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the lauroat herse where Lycid lies. For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me 1 whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurl'd; Whether beyond... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...is called tbt "swart-star," by turning u»e tfffect To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me I whilst thee the shores and sounding seat Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurl'd , 155 Whether... | |
 | 1865 - 700 pages
...bring ourselves to address our old friend the Great Auk, in the tender words of Milton : — " Aye me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurl'd, 'Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps, under the whelming tide, Visit'st... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...beauty shed, And Daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the Laureat Herse where Lycid lies. For so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me! [149-54] With this echo of the earlier "Alas!" that began the meditation on poetic fame, the poem now... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...beauty shed, And Daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To slrew the Laureat Herse where Lycid lies. For so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts...thee the shores, and sounding Seas Wash far away, where ere thy hones are hurld, Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd 31 Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where e'er thy bones are hurl'd, Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the humming... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, 130 Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash...Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit 'st the bottom of the monstrous world; Or whether thou, to our moist vows denied, Sleep'st by... | |
 | Jahan Ramazani - 1994 - 436 pages
...himself and the elegiac genre. Milton had also wondered whether to write an elegy was to be a con artist: "For so to interpose a little ease, / Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise." Tennyson had introduced his elegies as self-serving sobs — "wild and wandering cries, / Confusions... | |
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