 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....  The Book of Elizabethan Verse - Page 412edited by - 1907 - 823 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1854 - 778 pages
..." True, a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith imbrace A sword, a horse, a shield. " Yet this inconstancy...such, As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Loved I not honour more." To the honour of Kent be it remembered that Lovelace was... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...crown'd I laden will return to thee, Ev'n sated with variety. TO LCCASTA.— GOING TO THE WAKS. TELL me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...is such As you too shall adore ; I could not love thcc, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. TO SIB PETEK LELY, ON ШЗ PICTURE OP CHARLES I. SEE... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I choose, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield,... | |
 | George Willis - 1856 - 112 pages
...your correspondent, JW, are by the cavalier-poet Colonel Richard Lovelace, ami are really thus,— But this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore ;...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. The whole poem is quoted by Miss Mitford, in her Reminiscences. The poems of Colonel Lovelace, who... | |
 | Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control - Established churches - 1856 - 530 pages
...correspondent, JW, are by the cavalier-poet Colonel Richard Lovelace, and are really thus, — Bat this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore ;...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. The whole poem is quoted by Miss Mitford, in her Reminiscences. The poems of Colonel Lovelace, who... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...judiciously omitted by the musical TELL ME NOT, SWEET. By EicaiEB LOVELACE, born 1618, died 1853. TELL me not, sweet, I am unkind, — That from the nunnery...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THE RESOLVE. ALEXANDEE BEOJIE, born 1620, dicd 1663. TELL me not of a face that's fair, Nor lip and... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 pages
...nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I choose, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. ON LELY'S PORTRAIT OP CHARLES THE FIRST. See what an humble bravery doth shine, And grief triumphant... | |
 | St. George Tucker - Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 - 1857 - 368 pages
...atoned for all the vanity and foppishness of their unhappy author. " Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, If from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind,...foe in the field, And with a stronger faith embrace The sword, the horse, the shield. "Yet, this inconstancy is such As yon too shall adore ; I had not... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1857 - 532 pages
...joining the army, he wrote that beautiful song to his mistress, which has been so often quoted, — Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...reconciles, with equal truth and grace of feeling, the soldier's and the lover's duty : — " Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That, from the nunnery...thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms 1 fly. *' True, a new mistress now I chase, — The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith... | |
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