 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or tain-worm to the weanling-herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear When first the white-thorn blows, — Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. But weep not, woful shepherds, weep... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1849 - 290 pages
...seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worn to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers that their gay wardrobe wear When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear !" After the fine apostrophe on Fame... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen Faaning their joyous leaves to thy .-.ft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weaning herds that graze ; Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...and the hazel-copses green, Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm...flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows — Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm...flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds' ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm...flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. principle requires ; Active its task, it prompts,...lies, Form'd but to check, deliberate, and advise. white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidos, thy loss to shepherds' ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1852 - 516 pages
...with him whose death comes with the chilling winds of March. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or frost to flowers that their gay wardrobe wear When...the white thorn blows — Such, Lycidas, thy loss I Moore the poet is dead ! Why do we grieve so much to hear the knell, since it is merely a signal... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen, Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, « Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flow'rs, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to... | |
 | 1852 - 526 pages
...with him whose death comes with the chilling winds of March. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or frost to flowers that their gay wardrobe wear When...the white thorn blows — Such, Lycidas, thy loss ! Moore the poet is dead ! Why do we grieve so much to hear the knell, since it is merely a signal... | |
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And all their echoes mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that... 
