 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 Blue Poetry Book - Page 67edited by - 1891 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ballads, English - 1835 - 378 pages
...the nunnerie Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, To wane and armes I ttie. True, a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with...such, As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. [" *Lovelace," says Wood " made his amours to a gentlewoman... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...sweet, I am unkinde, That from the nunuerie Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, True, a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with...such, As you too shall adore . I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. THE SCRUTINIE. RICHARD LOVELACE. Why should you swear I am... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...the nunnerie Of thy chaste breast, and quiet minde To warre and arms I flie. True : a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with...such, As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. THE SCRUTINY. WHY should you sweare I am forsworn ? Since... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1836 - 436 pages
...modern verse. Another specimen, and let it be from Lovelace— like Carew, a courtier and cavalier — Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That, from the nunnery...I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first fu* in the field ; And with a stronger f.iith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...the nunnerie Of thy chaste breast, and quiet minde To warre and arms I flie. True : a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with...faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstaney is such, As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Lov'd I not honour... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 294 pages
...yet elegant and tender, — as, for instance, in his doubly gallant little epigram — TO J.UCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,...too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, LovM I not honour more. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605-1668), considered as a writer of miscellaneous... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1837 - 382 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...you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear! so much, The rest of his life was a series of the most cruel misfortunes. He was imprisoned on account... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 338 pages
...— conceited, yet elegant and tender, — as, for instance, in his doubly gallant little epigram — TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet,...this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore; SUCKLING. DAVENANT. BROWNE. DONNE. 41 I could not love thee, dear, so muchj Lov'd I not honour more.... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...glide Into the grave. HERRICK. HONOUR AND LOVE. TELL ma not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the memory Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms...such As you too shall adore, I could not love thee, dearest, much Lov'd I not honour more. LOVELACK. MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger,... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Buccaneers - 1840 - 474 pages
...sings his ballads most sweetly. You, too, had you heard him, would have listened a second tune : — ' True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in...this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore — 1 could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more !' But I forget, the theme is a forbidden... | |
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