...woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes, mourn : The willows, and the hazel copses green, Shall now...the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds' ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved...

...Fountain. 2 So the muse is made masculine in Samson Agonistes, ver. 973. 3 Drawing towards the west. Shall now no more be seen, Fanning their joyous leaves...gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows; Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither...

...desert caves, With wild thyme and thegudding vine o'ergrown, And nil their echoes mourn : The willow», and the hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. Compare any of Pope's descriptions, so lauded by Johnson, with these lines. Johnson says that the rhymes...

...thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn : The willows and the hazel-copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays." The same miseries Spenser makes the consequence of Colin Clout's absence. Hobbinol tells him : Colin...

...and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding1 vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes, mourn. • The willows, and the hazel copses green, Shall now...blows ; — Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, wnen the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither...

...woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes, mourn. er age Ennobled bath the bnskined stage. But, 0 sad...his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such note taint-worn to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When...

...o'ergrown, And all their echoes, mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more bo ars, hemage pay ; Be smooth, ye roeks ; ye rapid floods, give way ! The Saviour eomes ! by a taint-worn to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When...

...4n And all their echoes mourn: The willows, and hazel copses green, Shall now no more be seen, • I Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays, • As killing as the canker to the rose, 45 Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear,...

...Samson Agonistes, ver. 973. 3 Drawing towards the west. Shall now no more be seen, Fanning their joj'ous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker...the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds' ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless dec-p Closed o'er the head of your loved...

...woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme, and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn : The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no...killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling-herds that graze, Or frost to flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn...