 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pages
...her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have unoommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. HECTOR, THE GREYHOUND, GRACE GREENWOOD. HECTOR was the favourite hound of my brother Rufus, who was... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...graces spy'd, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended dy'd. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired;...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair. HBEBICK. 0 Rose, thou flower of flowers, thou fragrant wonder, Who shall describe thee in thy ruddy... | |
 | 1854 - 362 pages
...fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to havo iicr graces spiuil, That, hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have...common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How email a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! (Additional stanza by HK White.)... | |
 | Roses - 1914 - 300 pages
...blossoming if confined to the desert, "where no men abide," and then, somewhat ruthlessly, the lover bids it "die" — That she the common fate of all things rare,...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Beauty, adaptability and evanescence are, then, the attributes of the Rose that stirred the imagination... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...be. WALLER • SHAKESPEARE Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! William Shakespeare FESTE'S SONG/nw* TWELFTH NIGHT O mistress mine, where are you roaming ? O ! stay... | |
 | Laurence Goldstein - Body, Human - 1991 - 348 pages
...her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair! Over a decade ago, still reading The Dialectic of Sex and planning the ultimate revolution (the one... | |
 | Cleanth Brooks - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 364 pages
...and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair! "Go, Lovely Rose" is a graceful, tender, and an altogether charming appeal to the young woman to accept... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...graces spied That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died, 10 Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired;...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair. 20 John Milton ( I 608- 1 674) A Londoner, Milton was educated at St. Paul's School and then at Christ's... | |
 | David S. Shields - History - 1997 - 386 pages
...and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have...of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair!32 To grasp the innovation of the poem, we must note what is traditional. The motif of the rose... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That, hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. COMPOSED AROUND 1635; PUBLISHED 1645. A diplomatic envoy is somebody sent (French envoye, ultimately... | |
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Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide,... 
