 Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring : Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string.  Papers for teachers - Page 2001880Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...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,...gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd urn ; 20 And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nurst upon the self-same... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 92 pages
...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,...gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd urn, 20 And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nurs'd upon the self-same... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...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...denial vain, and coy excuse ; So may some gentle Muse WTith lucky words favor my destined urn, And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1871 - 630 pages
...titles." — Evelyn. ** Begin, then, sisters of the sacretl well, That from beneath the seat of Jove do spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string, Hence with denial vain and coy excuse." Milton. " For always the weakest part of mankind are the most suspicious ; the less they understand... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 568 pages
...float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, sisters of the sacred well, That from...sweep the string: Hence with denial vain, and coy excu: ./So may some gentle Muse "r<~vf~j-> f /With lucky words favour my destin'd urn; '""-' And as... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...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 - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...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... | |
 | Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...scorner of pastoralism by alluding to Hesiod's Theogony. That poem is echoed in the swain's appeal to the "Sisters of the sacred well, / That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring" (15-16). B Hesiod relates, at considerable length, how the Muses "by their singing / delight the great... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...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... | |
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