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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....

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Two Seventeenth Century Plays: Mirza : a tragedy

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War Poems

John Hollander - Poetry - 1999 - 264 pages

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Practice what You Preach: Virtues, Ethics, and Power in the Lives of ...

James F. Keenan, Joseph J. Kotva - Religion - 1999 - 352 pages

...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...you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. Commenting on the last lines of the poem, CS Lewis writes: "There are...

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