...Dropt from tho opening eyelids of the morn Upon the bashful rose." Middleton : The Game at Cktu. *l Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drive afield." Milton: Lynda. 4. " Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen enfolds...

...Dropt from the opening eyelids of the morn Upon the bashful rose." Middleton : The Game at Chess. " Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn, \Ve drive afield." Milton : LysiJai. 4. " Brief as the lightning in the collicd night, That in a spleen...

...introspection, as it were) to shepherd his flock and compose his poetry. [p. 85] For we were nurst upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain,...shade, and rill. Together both, ere the high Lawns appear'd Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a field, and both together heard What time...

...import uncertain. By contrast some readers find them almost unbearably poignant in their very obliquity: Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the...drove afield, and both together heard What time the grey-fly winds her suliry horn. Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night. Oft till the star...

...identification with the dead man turns explicit as Auden recounts how they were, as Milton put it, "nursed upon the selfsame hill, / Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill." But Auden historicizes the original scene of fellowship. Made neighbors by fate, the poets also had...

...my destin'd um, 20 And as he passes tum, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud, For we were nurst upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain,...shade, and rill. Together both, ere the high lawns appear'd Under the opening eyelids of the mom, We drove afield, and both together heard What time the...

...words favour my destined urn, And as he passes, turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. i 'm we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill. (15-24) The 'hill' upon which they were both nursed was, of course, Cambridge, their Alma Mater. The...

...associated with the head, and ultimately with faith and challenges to faith, throughout "Lycidas": Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove afield. (26-27) Apollo, the sun god, chides the speaker for insufficient faith, touching his ear (77). The...

...young man, which celebrates just the sense of careless ease that is so notably absent in the later one. For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the...heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at ev'ning, bright Toward...

...my destin'd urn, And as he passes, turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nurs'd upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain,...shade and rill. Together both, ere the high lawns appear'd Under the glimmering eyelids of the morn, We drove afield, and both together heard What time...