...never gives ; But though the whole would turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. GEORGE HERBERT. Lycidas. YET once more, O ye Laurels, and once more, Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. And with forced fingers rude Shatter your...

...Shepherds. The language is made to suit this idea, and is therefore highly metaphorical and figurative. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your...

...Chester on the Irish seas, 1637, and by occasion fortells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then iu their height. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck yonr berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your...

...lines; Craig beginning his consideration of Milton's poetry with an extended reading out of "Lycidas" ("Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more/ Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere") ; Brower imitating the finicky, weary cadences of the lady in TS Eliot's "Portrait of...

...1637." Then he braced himself for the steeplechase run-through that had never failed to move him deeply. "Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude, Shatter your...

...conceiving; And so sepulcher'd in such pomp dost lie. That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. LYCIDAS Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your...

...ancient symbols of triumphant verse and immortality — must again have their unripe berries disturbed: Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your...

...primary issue in current educational debate, I am put embarrassingly in mind of the exordium to Lycidas: Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sear, I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude ... Will we never have done with it? We struggle...

...may be the fragment's more obvious, but shared allusion to the opening lines of Milton's "Lycidas:" "Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more / Ye Myrtles brown." The fragment's clear allusion to Milton ("Yet once again . . . yet once again") gives way to a mysteriously...

...unfortunately drown'd in his Passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy then in their height. Yet...laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd f1ngers rude Shatter your...