once more ye myrtles brown," this self-described monody was written on the death of Edward King by drowning on the Irish Seas.
Mark Womack authored an essay "on the value of" this poem, which Arthur Barker argued is composed of three separate but parallel movements. Its final passage refers to the "uncouth Swain" who "touch'd the tender stops of various Quills," and appears to introduce a new narrator in ottava rima. Earlier, the poet refers to the "fair Guerdon when we hope to find and think to burst out into sudden blaze" before speaking of the "blind Fury with th' abhorred shears" who "slits the think spun life." More famous passages refer to the "two-handed engine" which may represent a sword and the "Pilot of the Galilean lake." Opening "yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more ye myrtles brown," this self-described monody was written on the death of Edward King by drowning on the Irish Seas. FTP, name this elegy for a dead shepherd by John Milton.
Mark Womack authored an essay "on the value of" this poem, which Arthur Barker argued is composed of three separate but parallel movements.
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