 | Barbara Herrnstein Smith - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 307 pages
...lovers sigh and swoune; Then shalt thou knowe beaultie but lent, And wisshe and want as I have done. 35 Now cease, my lute, this is the last Labour that thou and I shall wast, And ended is that we begon; Now is this song boeth sung and past; My lute be still, for I have... | |
 | Steven G. Kellman - Education - 1980 - 188 pages
...Trilogy Now cease, my lute. This is the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And ended is that we begun. Now is this song both sung and past; My lute, be still, for I have done. SirThomas Wyatt, "My Lute Awake!" 11.36-40 I BECKETT AND THE FRENCH TRADITION When, several years after... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...repent The time that thou hast lost and spent To cause thy lover's sigh and swoon: Then shalt thou know beauty but lent, And wish and want, as I have...Labour that thou and I shall waste, And ended is that we begun: Now is this song both sung and past My lute, be still, for I have done. John Heath-Stubbs... | |
 | Jane Hedley - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 222 pages
...old," to experience the same frustrated longing that he has gone through for her sake: "Then shalt thou know beauty but lent, / And wish and want as I have done." The shift in meaning reflects a shift on the singer's part from the short to the long view of his disappointment.... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1994 - 332 pages
...to repent The time that thou hast lost and spent To cause thy lovers sigh and swoon. Then shalt thou know beauty but lent And wish and want as I have done. (145) Her future will repeat his history as it relates to her unavailability. When she lives his past,... | |
 | Patricia Thomson - Poetry, Modern - 1995 - 204 pages
...repent, The time that thou hast lost and spent; To cause thy Lovers sigh and swoon ; Then shall thou know beauty but lent, And wish and want, as I have done. The little ode on parting from his mistress is tender and simple. The picture drawn in the concluding... | |
 | Gregory Orr - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 250 pages
...to repent The time that thou hast lost and spent To cause thy lovers sigh and swoon; Then shalt thou know beauty but lent. And wish and want as I have done. Now cease, my lute, this is the last Labor that thou and I shall waste. And ended is that we begun; Now is this song both sung and past:... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 228 pages
...to repent The time that thou hast lost and spent To cause thy lovers sigh and swoon. Then shalt thou know beauty but lent, And wish and want as I have done. SIR THOMAS WYATT, from "Mv Lute, Awake!" Achilles: What are you reading? Ulysses: A strange fellow... | |
 | Elizabeth Engebretson - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 368 pages
...had. 1 let the pages flip past my thumb until I found Dorothy's My lute, Awake! The last two lines, "Now is this song both sung and past. My lute, be still, for I have done." brought back the sound of Rich's dismissive tale about the poetry but more so the man. Had Rich never... | |
 | Norah Lofts - Fiction - 2008 - 465 pages
...my lute, this is the last Labor that thou and I shall waste, For ended is what we began: Now is the song both sung and past, My lute be still, for I have done. She laid the lute down for the last time. 425 XLV I have seen men, and also women executed, and they... | |
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Now cease, my lute, this is the last Labour, that thou and I shall waste; And ended is that we begun : Now is this song both sung and past; My lute, be still, for I have done. 
