 | England - 1860 - 532 pągines
...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 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pągines
...From, the glad sound would not be absent long; 35 And old DamoBtas loved to hear our song. But, 0, 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 Wilson - 1861 - 236 pągines
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pągines
...Damoetas loved to hear our song. Meanwhile the rural ditties were not mute, Temper'd to the oaten flute ; 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... | |
 | Robert Duncan - 1993 - 172 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 pągines
...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... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - 1995 - 288 pągines
...transferring the mourning activity from himself to nature: "Thee Shepherd, thee the Woods, and desert Caves,/ With wild Thyme and the gadding Vine o'ergrown,/ And all their echoes mourn" (11. 39-41). The blight is on nature, associated with the speaker only through the remote figure of... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pągines
...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 pągines
...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.... | |
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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. As killing as the canker to the rose... 
