 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 páginas
...upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well, That from...So may some gentle muse With lucky words favour my destined urn ; And, as he passes, turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nursed... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 páginas
...roll to and fro Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin, then, Sisters of the sacred well,1 15 That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin,...with denial vain, and coy excuse : So may some gentle Miue poet With lucky words * favour my destined urn ; 20 And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 páginas
...upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from...So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destined urn ; And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nursed... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 116 páginas
...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, 15 That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin,...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 — 10. He knew himself... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 páginas
...elegists,13 becomes by Milton's accentuation a very theme of the poem, a sign of the poem's anguish: Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somwhat loudly sweep the string. [15-17] Yet the repeated "Begin" contains the stabilizing power of... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 páginas
...woman. But we do not know. We "do not know what "the sacred well" is in the invocation in "Lycidas": "Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well / That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring." It could be the Pierian spring, with "the seat of Jove" being Mount Olympus. It could be Hippocrene,... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 páginas
...his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear.98 Begin, then, Sisters" of the sacred well That from...Hence with denial vain and coy excuse: So may some gende Muse With lucky words favour my destined urn, 20 And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from...coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favor my destin'd um, 20 And as he passes tum, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud, For we were... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - 1995 - 288 páginas
...might expect, 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,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 páginas
...conventional invocation of the muses. The parallel between Edward King and himself is foremost in his mind: Begin then, sisters of the sacred well That from beneath...So may some gentle muse With lucky words favour my destined urn, And as he passes, turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. i 'm we were nursed... | |
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Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. 
