 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...others had been more Than to thy famish'd mind the wide world's store. HEN Jossox, 1574-16S7. THE ROSE. Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and...How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's yonng, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - English poetry - 1855 - 870 pages
...them to her, she discovered an additional stanza written by him at the bottom of the song here copied. Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to bo. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied j That hadst thou sprung In deserts,... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...you in his arms And shatter your virginity. Translated from the French by Robert Mezey Edmund Waller Go, lovely Rose — Tell her that wastes her time...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. WALLER • SHAKESPEARE Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung... | |
 | Laurence Goldstein - Body, Human - 1991 - 348 pages
...thirty-five. In an undusted corner of my pre-feminist consciousness Edmund Waller plays the lute and sings: Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small a part of time they... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...We're Going to Miss Our Chance to go to Jail. BPo; CNA EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687) Go, Lovely Rose 1 e forgotten, so I would forget Thus devoted, concentrated in purpose. (1. 59-62) 6 And (1. 1 —5) 2 Then die that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; (1. 16-18) AWP;... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...but at the date 30 Of fading beauty; if it prove But as long-liv'd as present love. GO LOVELY ROSE Go lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and...young, And shuns to have her graces spied That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died, 10 Small is the worth Of... | |
 | David S. Shields - History - 1997 - 386 pages
...Lyrics," in Chernaik, The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller (New Haven, Conn., 1968), 52-114. That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How...young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...Yale University Press, 1968. Gilbert, Jack Glenn. Edmund Waller. Boston: Twayne, 1979. Go, Lovely Rose Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and...young And shuns to have her graces spied, That, hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty... | |
 | Rufus Goodwin - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1999 - 262 pages
...prayer to the universe. Edmund Waller (1606-1687) speaks and talks, as in prayer, even to the rose: Go, lovely Rose! Tell her that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Like prayers, we can memorize poems and repeat them, learning them like an inner landscape to offset... | |
 | Rhonda S. Pettit - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 260 pages
...Edmund Waller's "Go, Lovely Rose," a poem in the carpe diem tradition. The first and last stanzas read: "Go, lovely Rose — / Tell her that wastes her time...her to thee, / How sweet and fair she seems to be. / / Then die — that she / The common fate of all things rare / May read in thee; / How small a part... | |
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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 hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide,... 
