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. Yet this inconstancy... Lucasta: The Poems of Richard Lovelace - Page 27by Richard Lovelace, William Carew Hazlitt - 1864 - 293 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Godolphin Waldron, Sylvester Harding - Great Britain - 1795 - 298 pages
...I chase, The first Foe in the Fields And with a stronger Faith embrace A Sword, a Horse, a Shield. Yet this Inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee (DeareJ so much, Lov'd J not Honour more. *** In page 86, line 7, instead of Fran: Lovclove, read,... | |
| English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...I chace, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore,...love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SONNET. WHEN I by thy fair shape did swear (And mingled with each vow a tear) I lov'd, I lov'd thee... | |
| English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is suck As you too shall adore, I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SONVET. WHEN I by thy fair shape did swear (And mingled with each vow a tear) I lov'd, I lov'd thee... | |
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore : I could not love thee, deare, so much, Loved I not honoure more. LoVELACn. The Pimpernel. See'st thou yon pimpernel ? An hour... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...I chaee, The first foe in the Held ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SONNET. WHEK I by thy fair shape did swear (And mingled with each vow a tear) I lov'd, I lov'd thee... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 474 pages
...I chace, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger fuith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd 1 not honour more. SONNET. WHEN I by thy fair shape did swear (And mingled with each vow a tear) I... | |
| Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, Dear! so much, TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. WHEN Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates, And my divine... | |
| Charles Snart - Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field ; And, with a stronger faith, embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. EPIGRAM. ON IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. OF old the Debtor, that insolvent died, Egypt the rites of sepulture... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 474 pages
...field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such A* you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SOKNET. WHEN I by thy fair shape did swear (And mingled with each vow a tear) I lov'd, I lov'd thee... | |
| Richard Lovelace - English poetry - 1817 - 284 pages
...I chasc, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. A PARADOX. 'Tis true the beauteous star To which I first did bow Burnt quicker, brighter far Than that... | |
| |