The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton - John Milton (9 December 1608 - 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. |
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... 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 rhime . He must not float upon his watery bier myrtles brown ] Hor . Od ...
... 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 rhime . He must not float upon his watery bier myrtles brown ] Hor . Od ...
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... Lycidas , thy loss to shepherd's ear . [ deep Where were ye , Nymphs , when the remorseless Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep , 41 45 51 83 Temper'd ] On this word see P. Fletcher's ...
... Lycidas , thy loss to shepherd's ear . [ deep Where were ye , Nymphs , when the remorseless Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep , 41 45 51 83 Temper'd ] On this word see P. Fletcher's ...
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... Lycidas your sorrow is not dead , 166 Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day - star in the ocean bed , And yet anon repairs his drooping head , And tricks his beams , and with new spangled ore Flames in the ...
... Lycidas your sorrow is not dead , 166 Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor ; So sinks the day - star in the ocean bed , And yet anon repairs his drooping head , And tricks his beams , and with new spangled ore Flames in the ...
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