Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. English Poetry - Page 2921910 - 1508 pagesFull view - About this book
| English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...only with thine eye's, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not ask for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise,...a drink divine, But might I of Jove's nectar sup, 1 would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee, As giving... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...taken, to be seen, — These have crimes accounted been. SONG. To Celia. [From the same.] DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine...drink divine, But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee Fate a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee, As giving it... | |
| John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And '11 not ask for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise,...drink divine, But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would, not change for thine. ! ^ ' ' ' . I sent thee late a rosy wreath,. Not so much honouring thee,... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...taken, to be seen, — These have crimes accounted been. SONG. . To Celia. [From the same.] DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine...drink divine, But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee, As giving it... | |
| Richard Clark - Madrigals, English - 1814 - 530 pages
...Voices. T. LlHLEY. to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine : Or leave a kiss within the cup, And I'll not look for wine: The thirst that...Doth ask a drink divine But might I of Jove's nectar sip, . I would not change for thine. I sent thee, late, a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee,... | |
| John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 446 pages
...Philostratus, has been imitated by Ben Jonson, in his poem entitled the Forest : — " Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine...kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine." thing more frigid than this romance, nothing meaner, nothing more unpleasant and disgusting. In the... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...Move it, as their humblest suit, In thy justice to molest None but them, and leave the rest. IX. SONG. To CELIA.' Drink to me, only with thine eyes, And...a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. ' No part of Jonson has been so frequently quoted as this song, which, pleasing as it is, is not superior... | |
| Scottish songs - 1816 - 320 pages
...spread, My Anna there I'll mourn ; For all my soul, now she is dead, DRINK TO ME ONLY. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine;...the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that in my soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sip, I would not change... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Dmnnc to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And HI and with eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And...half-embracing lean'd On onr first father ; half her would not change for thine. I sent thee, late, a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee, As giving... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...April wears : But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy chains by thee ! SHAKSPEARE. SONG. TO CELIA. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I...drink divine, But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee, As giving it... | |
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