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John Milton, "Lycidas": A READING by Ano sensei
Click here for my analysis of this poem: https://tinyurl.com/anolycidas
0:00 1. "Yet once more, O ye laurels"
1:01 2. "Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well"
1:30 3. "For we were nurs'd upon the self-same hill"
2:18 4. "But O the heavy change now thou art gone"
3:04 5. "Where were ye, Nymphs...?"
3:49 6. "Alas! what boots it with incessant care...?"
4:57 7-1. "O fountain Arethuse"
5:31 7-2. "They knew not of his story"
5:57 8-1. "Next Camus, reverend sire"
6:56 8-2. "Blind mouths! that scarce themselves"
7:46 9-1. "Return, Alpheus: the dread voice is past"
8:55 9-2. "For so to interpose a little ease"
9:43 10-1. "Weep no more, woeful shepherds"
10:29 10-2 "There entertain him all the saints"
11:03 11 "Thus sang the uncouth youth"
Milton's "Lycidas" is a difficult poem, and we need to read it several times before we can begin to grasp its meaning. Listening to a reading can help to make the meaning clearer through the pauses and intonation.
For an analysis of this poem, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OyvjIs4qKU&list=PLzVb6yL_jY69WT_vPGJJMIy3BY5ffdRkG
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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,
And with forc'd fingers rude
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear
Compels me to disturb your season due;
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
He must not float upon his wat'ry bier
Unwept, and welter to the parching wind,
Without the meed of some melodious tear.Show More
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Click here for my analysis of this poem: https://tinyurl.com/anolycidas
0:00 1. “Yet once more, O ye laurels”
1:01 2. “Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well”
1:30 3. “For we were nurs’d upon the self-same hill”
2:18 4. “But O the heavy change now thou art gone”
3:04 5. “Where were ye, Nymphs…?”
3:49 6. “Alas! what boots it with incessant care…?”
4:57 7-1. “O fountain Arethuse”
5:31 7-2. “They knew not of his story”
5:57 8-1. “Next Camus, reverend sire”
6:56 8-2. “Blind mouths! that scarce themselves”
7:46 9-1. “Return, Alpheus: the dread voice is past”
8:55 9-2. “For so to interpose a little ease”
9:43 10-1. “Weep no more, woeful shepherds”
10:29 10-2 “There entertain him all the saints”
11:03 11 “Thus sang the uncouth youth”