 Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's...  A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Page 337by Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...worth 's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever -loved. .SONNET. WHEN to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon... | |
 | Treasury - 1872 - 166 pages
...worth 's unknown, although his height be taken. Love 's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters...of doom :— If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. —SHAKESPEARE. THE WATERFALL. WITH what deep murmurs, through... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1872 - 772 pages
...worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. To return, then, what are we to say of the woman who would enter... | |
 | John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come : Love alters...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. WILLIAM SHAKHSPEARE. 1564 — 1616. THE COURSE OF LUST. THE expense... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 588 pages
...worth 's unknown, although his height be taken. Love 's not Time's fool,c though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters...to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. CXVTI. Accuse me thus : — that I have scanted all Wherein... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. SHAKSPEAKE. THE PILOT'S DAUGHTER. O'ER western tides the fair... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Johnston - Birthday books - 1875 - 418 pages
...worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters...edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Sonneis, cxvi. MARCH. It was a lover and his lass, With a hey,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...worth 's unknown, although his height be taken. Love 's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor 110 man ever loved. No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change : Thy pyramids... | |
 | Samuel John Stone - Poetry - 1875 - 103 pages
...Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved." Of this Sonnet much has been written in praise, but there is... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...worth's unknown although his1 height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters...edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. AT THE VIRGINAL. How oft, when thou, my music ! music playest... | |
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