"Wash Far Away" by John Berryman from the collection Freedom of the Poet is also taken from this poem: Ay me! Whilst thee the shores and sounding Seas Wash far away, where ere thy bones are hurld, (154–155) The song "The Alphabet Business Concern (Home of Fadeless Splendour)", from the album Heaven Born and Ever Bright (1992) by Cardiacs, contains the lines:Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears And slits the thin spun life. (75–76) See also 1637 in poetry, the year the poem was written 1638 in poetry, the year the poem was published References Further reading Patrides, C. A. Lycidas: The Tradition and the Poem (Holt, Rinehart, 1961) LCCN 61005930 Patrides, C. A. Milton's Lycidas: The Tradition and the Poem new and revised edition, (University of Missouri, 1983) External links Full text at The Milton Reading Room 1637 poems 1638 poems Poetry by John Milton