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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? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He... "
The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political ... - Page 508
by David Masson - 1875
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas t He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin, and...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 88 LYCIDAS. Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier...parching wind Without the meed of some melodious tear. For we were nurs'd upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill. Together...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 50

1847 - 488 pages
...and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring — Begin,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas J He knew Himself to sing, and build the beat the drums ; Flush'd with a purple grace He shows...the hautboys breath ; he comes ! he comet ! Bacchus, Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin, and...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 50

1847 - 482 pages
...and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and weltei to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred...
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The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - 1849 - 428 pages
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The Literary Reader: For Academies and High Schools: Consisting of ...

Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and built the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the feet of Jove doth spring, Begin, and...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 pages
...and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious /ear.16 Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin,...
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Guy's new speaker, selections of poetry and prose from the best writers in ...

Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and...
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Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present Century

Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. ****** To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And...
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