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.... Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys - Página 32por William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 364 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 páginas
...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...faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstaney is such, As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 páginas
...yet elegant and tender, — as, for instance, in his doubly gallant little epigram — TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,...this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore; SUCKLING. DAVENANT. BROWNE. DONNE. 41 I could not love thee, dear, so muchj Lov'd I not honour more.... | |
| John Pendleton Kennedy - 1839 - 880 páginas
...gallants there, and I confess a favour for it because it hath a stirring relish. It runs thus : ' Tell rue not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of...chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. 1 True, a new mistress, now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1840 - 474 páginas
...sings his ballads most sweetly. You, too, had you heard him, would have listened a second tune : — ' True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in...this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore — 1 could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more !' But I forget, the theme is a forbidden... | |
| Cam river - 1841 - 318 páginas
...nunnerie Of thy chaste heart and quiet mind, To war and arms I flie. Another mistress hence I chace, The first foe in the field, And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. LOVELACE. TO AN EDITOR. So rude and senseless are thy lays, The weary audience vows, Tis not the Arcadian... | |
| George Ellis - 1845 - 440 páginas
...the Sun in's early ray, But shake your head and scatter day ! SONG. To Lucasta. Going to the tears. TELL me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chace, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet... | |
| Llewelyn (fict.name.) - 1846 - 914 páginas
...r London: Printed by STRWABT and Muuuir, Old Bailey. LLEWELYVS HEIK. CHAPTER I. Tell me not, love, I am unkind;— That from the nunnery Of thy chaste...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Ox the arrival of the party at Glyn Llewelyn, it might have been imagined that they had been absent... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...and scatter day ! To Lvfaata, on going to Лс Wart. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from th« !@ {! ¡я such, As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...To Luauta, on going to the Wan. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chatte ` Tet this inconstancy is such, •A: you, too, shall adore ; I could not 1оте thee, dear, so much,... | |
| 1847 - 334 páginas
...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...arms I fly. ' True, a new mistress now I chase, The flrst foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace i A sword, a horse, a shield. ' Yet this... | |
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