| John Milton - 1874 - 518 páginas
...doth spring ; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain and coy excuse : So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destined urn, 20 And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud ! For we were nursed upon the self-same... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 páginas
...doth spring ; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string ; Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse : So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my...passes, turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill. Together... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 páginas
...the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse; So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favor my destined urn, And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shrond. For we werp nurst upon the selfsame hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill;... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 páginas
...Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse, So may som gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd Urn, And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shrowd. [18-22] It is a pagan consolation, in which the succession of poets passes by the funeral bier... | |
| John Guillory - 1993 - 422 páginas
...funeral. Gray ends his poem here, where Milton begins: So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favor my destined Urn And as he passes turn And bid fair peace be to my sable Shroud. Milton's solution to the problem of premature death is to place Lycidas at the threshold between life... | |
| James Russell Kincaid - 1995 - 288 páginas
...on behalf of Lycidas, but for himself: "So may some gentle Muse/ With lucky words favor my destin'd urn,/ And as he passes turn,/ And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud" (11. 19-22). After imagining his own elegy, Milton proceeds to sing that elegy, or, more accurately,... | |
| Tony Bex - 1996 - 238 páginas
...part of the meaning of his poem. The one that most obviously springs to mind is Milton's 'Lycidas': 3 So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my...passes turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. (Milton, 'Lycidas') Milton's poem was written immediately prior to the civil war, and he too was contemplating... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 páginas
...Jove doth spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse; So may some gentle muse With lucky words favour my...passes, turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. i 'm we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill. (15-24)... | |
| Harvey Seymour Gross, Robert McDowell - 1996 - 362 páginas
...Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse; So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favor my destin'd urn, And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. The corpse was bloodless, a botch of reds and whites, Its open, staring eyes Were lustreless dead-lights... | |
| William Harmon - 1998 - 386 páginas
...Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse. So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favor my destin'd urn, And as he passes, turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nurs'd upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade and rill. Together... | |
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