In this poem, the poet wonders if it would be better to sport with Amaryllis in the shade then meditate the thankless muse, and the "pilot of the Galilean lake" derides shepherds who care more for their own well-being then for their sheep.
In this poem, the poet wonders if it would be better to sport with Amaryllis in the shade then meditate the thankless muse, and the "pilot of the Galilean lake" derides shepherds who care more for their own well-being then for their sheep. A monody in which the author bewails a learned friend unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish seas in 1637, the poem begins "Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more / Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, / I come to pluck your berries harsh and rude." FTP, identify this elegy on the death of Edward King, named for the lost shepherd in Virgil's third Bucolic, and written by John Milton.
In this poem, the poet wonders if it would be better to sport with Amaryllis in the shade then meditate the thankless muse, and the "pilot of the Galilean lake" derides shepherds who care more for their own well-being then for their sheep.
Lycidas