| Lynn Montross, Lois Montross - New York (N.Y.) - 1917 - 320 pages
...lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our love's long day . . . And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion...adore •each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest. . . ." "Poor boy! You stayed home all afternoon to learn it," said Cynara sympathetically. "Why not?"... | |
| Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...by the Indian Ganges' side 5 Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Peete Cross 10 My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow; An hundred years should go to praise... | |
| Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 544 pages
...Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find ; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood ; And you should,...should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead ga2e ; Amjntas] 1652 & 1653 ; Amyntor, 1659. Two hundred to adore each breast ; But thirty thousand... | |
| Helen Bevington - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 232 pages
...she is reluctant, Marveil is a patient lover; he would prolong the wooing to the end of time: I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should...you please refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. She deserves to be possessed at such a rate, and he's the man to do it. She is worth waiting for. But... | |
| Robert Malcolm Smuts - History - 1996 - 314 pages
...by the Indian Ganges' side 5 Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide Of Humber would complain, I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should...you please refuse Till the Conversion of the Jews, 10 My vegetable Love should grow Vaster man Empires, and more slow, An hundred years should go to praise... | |
| Virginia Graham - Poetry - 1996 - 260 pages
...Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood: And you should, if you please, refuse, 10 Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.... | |
| H. L. Hix - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...Marvell points out the lack of urgency in such praise. "Had we but world enough, and time," he says, My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires...adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest. Lovers, though, cannot afford such leisure, since "time's winged chariot" is always "hurrying near."... | |
| David Haley - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 316 pages
...(above) on Noah and the Second Coming are distanced from the lover's words to his Coy Mistress: he would "Love you ten years before the Flood: / And you should...if you please refuse / Till the Conversion of the Jews."29 Flood and Apocalypse are the limits of the providential time series from which the poet has... | |
| T. S. Eliot - Literary Collections - 1997 - 146 pages
...hut world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime, ... I would Love you ten years hefore the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews; My vegetahle love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow. . . . We notice the high speed, the succession... | |
| Richard Bradford - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 284 pages
...Indian Ganges side Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ren years before the Flood: And you should if you please refuse Till the Conversion of the Jew's. My vegatable Love should grow Vasrer than Empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go... | |
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