 | R. Wilcher - 1985 - 214 Seiten
...the unfaithful lover. Consoling herself with this playmate, she retreats from the pain of desertion: Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this: and very well content, 40 Could so mine idle life have spent. For it was full of sport; and light Of foot, and heart; and... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1986 - 308 Seiten
...beguiled. This waxed tame, while he grew wild, And quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play...well content, Could so mine idle life have spent. 40 For it was full of sport; and light Of foot, and heart; and did invite Me to its game: it seemed... | |
 | Patsy Griffin - 1995 - 228 Seiten
...the beast have exchanged roles. The nymph is satisfied with the exchange: Thenceforth I set my self to play My solitary time away, With this: and very well content, Could so mine idle Life have spent. (37-40) She could tolerate the loss of Sylvio who took away "his Heart" (36), but she cannot abide... | |
 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 Seiten
...beguiled. This waxed tame, while he grew wild, 35 And quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play...solitary time away With this: and very well content, 40 Could so mine idle life have spent. For it was full of sport; and light Of foot, and heart; and... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 678 Seiten
...Andrew Marvell's "Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun," lines 37-40: Thenceforth I set my self to play My solitary time away. With this: and very well content, Could so mine idle Life have spent. Poe quoted other lines from this poem with enthusiasm in a review of SC Hall's Book of Gems in the... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 Seiten
...beguiled. This waxed tame, while he grew wild, And quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play...solitary time away With this: and very well content, 40 Could so mine idle life have spent. For it was full of sport; and light Of foot, and heart; and... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 2002 - 100 Seiten
...beguiled. This waxed tame, while he grew wild, And quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play...solitary time away, With this: and very well content, 40 Could so mine idle life have spent. For it was full of sport; and light Of foot, and heart; and... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1872 - 718 Seiten
...beguiled : This waxed tame, while he grew wild ; And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth, I set myself to play...foot and heart, and did invite Me to its game. It seemed to bless Itself in me ; how could I less Than love it ? O ! I cannot be Unkind t' a beast that... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 Seiten
...beguiled : This waxed tame, while he grew wild ; And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, seemed to bless Itself in me ; how could I less Than love it ? 0, I cannot be Unkind to a beast that... | |
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But Sylvio soon had me beguiled: This waxed tame, while he grew wild, And quite regardless of my smart, Left me his Fawn, but took his Heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this, and very well content Could so mine idle life... 
