 GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield....  The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Sivu 344tekijä(t) Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 882 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 sivua
...'gainst winter, rain, and poize Their floods with an o'erflowing glass. TO LUCASTA, GOING TO THE WARS. Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms...you too shall adore, I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. RICHARD CRASHAW. DIED ABOUT 1650. CRASHAW, a Catholic priest, is chiefly... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1833 - 420 sivua
...sings his ballads most sweetly. You toov had you heard him, would have listened a second tune : — '* True, a new mistress now I chase The first foe in...too, shall adore— I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more!" But I forget, the theme is a forhidden one ; and I see, Constance,... | |
 | 1833 - 388 sivua
...present suffice. TO LUCASTA. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste heart and quiet mind. To war and arms I fly. True, a new...faith embrace. A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this in constancy is such, As you too shall adore, I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour... | |
 | 1835 - 378 sivua
...the nunnerie Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, To wane and armes I ttie. True, a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with...such, As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. [" *Lovelace," says Wood " made his amours to a gentlewoman... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 sivua
...sweet, I am unkinde, That from the nunuerie Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, True, a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with...such, As you too shall adore . I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. THE SCRUTINIE. RICHARD LOVELACE. Why should you swear I am... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 sivua
...the nunnerie Of thy chaste breast, and quiet minde To warre and arms I flie. True : a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with...such, As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. THE SCRUTINY. WHY should you sweare I am forsworn ? Since... | |
 | 1837 - 574 sivua
...martial spirit about the following that cannot be well surpassed. To LuCASTA. Going to the wars. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...too shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. The devotedness of soul with which he embraces " A sword, a horse, a... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 394 sivua
...joining the army, he wrote that beautiful song to his mistress, which has been so often quoted, — Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...too shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear ! so much, Lov'd I not honour more. The rest of his life was a series of the most cruel misfortunes. He... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 sivua
...— as, for instance, in his doubly gallant little epigram — TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605-1668), considered as a writer of miscellaneous... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 sivua
...— as, for instance, in his doubly gallant little epigram — TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...too, shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605-1668), considered as a writer of miscellaneous... | |
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