Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, 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... The Monthly anthology, and Boston review - Page 3481809Full view - About this book
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Slecp'st by the fable of Bcllerue old, 160 20 21 Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas 169 And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky : So... | |
| Patrick Welwood, John Anderson - Covenanters - 1841 - 334 pages
...broken for ever, Quentin Rowallan was buried in the Greyfriars' churchyard, where " he sleeps well." " So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head ; And tricks bis beams, and with new-spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. In the blest kingdoms,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 368 pages
...and when you appear with it as restored to its original splendour, I will carry on the quotation : ' So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his dropping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames on the forehead' " " 0 enough,... | |
| John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Shepherds weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watryjloar, So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon...drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new Spangled Ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through... | |
| Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...as they are complimentary to the deceased: Weep no more, woful shepherd, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor: So sinks the day-star in the ocean's bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...woeful Shepherds weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor, So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head. (lines 165-9) Christ's nativity has made the classical tradition obsolete. The promise of resurrection... | |
| John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore 170 Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...woeful shepherds weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore, 170 Flames in the forehead of the moming sky: So Lycidas, sunk low, but mounted high,... | |
| William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...beauty. Our hearts are ready for belief. Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. (165-71) Immortality, the reward of the... | |
| Robert Peters - Children - 1997 - 220 pages
...envisioned his drowned friend Edward King's soul as a morning star: Sunk though he be beneath the wat'ry floor, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And...his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,... | |
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