 Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee, Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair. If thou find'st one, let me know,...  Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical ... - Page 384by George Ellis - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English literature - 1910 - 542 pages
...true, and fair. The concluding stanza of the lyric is even more outrageously cynical : If thou find'st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet, Yet...Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. The poems of Donne came much into fashion from their absolute originality, and it may be affirmed that... | |
 | Frederic William Moorman - 1910 - 262 pages
...strange wonders that befell thee, And swear, No where Lives a woman true and fair. If thou find'st one let me know ; Such a pilgrimage were sweet. Yet...letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three.1 And if he finds women inconstant, he makes no boast of constancy in himself : I can love both... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 492 pages
...let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet; Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we should meet. Though she were true when you met her, And last...Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. SWEETEST LOVE, I DO NOT Go SWEETEST love, I do not go For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world... | |
 | American poetry - 1910 - 498 pages
...All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear, Nowhere Lives a woman true and fair. If thou find'st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet; Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we should meet. Though she were true when you met her, And last till you write your letter, Yet she Will... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1911 - 642 pages
...strange wonders that befell thee, And swear, No where • Lives a woman true and fair. If thou find'st one, let me know ; Such a pilgrimage were sweet. Yet...Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. J. DONNE. 314. LOVE'S DEITY I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1911 - 578 pages
...women. He asks, for instance, " where lives a woman true and fair," and proceeds : — If thou find'st one let me know ; Such a pilgrimage were sweet. Yet...letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three.1 This is the spirit of Ariosto's story of Giocondo. But Donne goes further, and cynically erects... | |
 | Poetry - 1912 - 408 pages
...All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true and fair. If thou find'st one, let me know; Such a pilgrimage were sweet. Yet...Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. John Donne [1573-1631] THE MESSAGE SEND home my long-strayed eyes to me, Which, O! too long have dwelt... | |
 | Percy Adams Hutchinson - English poetry - 1912 - 572 pages
...All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true and fair. If thou find'st one let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet; Yet...Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two or three. THE DREAM DEAK love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme... | |
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