Lycidas

Versions of Lycidas

by John Milton

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Lycidas is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, entitled Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, dedicated to the memory of Edward King, friend of Milton's at Cambridge who drowned when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales in August 1637. The poem is 193 lines in length, and is irregularly rhymed. "Lycidas," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Versions of Lycidas include:

"Lycidas", in Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, Compos'd at several times (1645)

"Lycidas", in Comus and other poems (1906)

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