| Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...the star, that rose at evening bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. . . . But, O, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return ! Thee, shepherd, thee, the woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine... | |
| Max Ring - 1868 - 342 pages
...wheel. Meanwhile the rural ditties were- not mute, Tempered to the oaten flute. * * * * * * But, oh, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return ! Thee, shepherd, thee, the woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...From the glad sound would not be absent long ; 35 And old Damcetas loved to hear our song. But, oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine... | |
| John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pages
...heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, And old Damaatas loved to hear our song. But oh, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return ! Thee, shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves "With wild thyme and the gadding vine... | |
| Robert Duncan - 1993 - 172 pages
...lament or celebrate a youth or age that yet shall not avail against the still unbroken universe of God. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, now thou art gone, and we are set adrift in th'eclipse. Any wastes, like Carthage burnd & salted, cities of despair, are better... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...clov'n heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, And old Damaetas lov'd to hear our song. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must retum! Thee shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves. With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown,... | |
| Simon Bainbridge - 1995 - 292 pages
...tone of the passage evoke the literary tradition of elegy. We are reminded, for example, of Lycidas: But O the heavy change, now thou art gone Now thou art gone, and never must return . . . (lines 37-8, my italics) and: Shall no more be seen (line 43, my italics)'7 and of... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...and rural ditties; he dared to express the age-old sense of loss in language plain and repetitious: But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee, shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...denial vain, and coy excuse. 7525 'Lycidas' For we were nursed upon the self-same hill. 7526 'Lycidas' hat wanton in the air Know no such liberty. 6539 To Altheu. From Prison must return! 7527 'Lycidas' The woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown.... | |
| William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long, And old Dametas lov'd to hear our song. But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves With wilde thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown... | |
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