" This poem laments a "homely, slighted" trade and wonders "Were it not better done, as others use, / To sport with Amaryllis in the shade?
This poem commands "Throw hither all your quaint-enamelled eyes" and "let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise." This poem laments a "homely, slighted" trade and wonders "Were it not better done, as others use, / To sport with Amaryllis in the shade?" This poem may reference its author's trip to Italy in its final couplet, in which the speaker twitches his "mantle blue." In this poem, Phoebus says "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, / Nor in the glistering foil." This poem's opening stanza asks "who would not (*) sing for" its subject, and tells laurels that "I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude." This poem commands "Look homeward, Angel" and asks "Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep / Closed o'er the head of" the title character, a standin for shipwreck-victim Edward King. For 10 points, name this pastoral elegy by John Milton.
This poem commands "Throw hither all your quaint-enamelled eyes" and "let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
"Lycidas"