 | Robert Herrick - 1877 - 120 Seiten
...away as does the sun : — And as a vapor, or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again : So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade ; THE HOCK-CART, OR HARVEST HOME. 21 All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 332 Seiten
...fast away as does the sun ; And as a vapor, or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again: So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting...are but decaying, Come, my Corinna, come ! let's go a-Maying. Robert Herrick. THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERD. MY sheep I neglected, I broke my sheep-hook, And... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 Seiten
...fast away as does the sun ; And as a vapor, or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again: So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting...are but decaying, Come, my Corinna, come! let's go a-Maying. Robert Herrick. TRF FAITHLESS SHEPHERD. THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERD. MY sheep I neglected, I broke... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 Seiten
...fast away as does the sun ; And as a vapour, or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again : So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting...serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna, corne! let's go aMaying. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593—1632. THE WORLD. LOVE built a stately house, where... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 Seiten
...you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade ; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endless night. — Then while time serves,...decaying, Come, my Corinna ! come, let's go a Maying. THE ROCK OF RUBIES. Some ask'd me where the Rubies grew : And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 Seiten
...or to Herrick. In Herrick indeed the Horace of the Odes is everywhere, and not in mere translation: So, when or you or I are made A fable, song or fleeting shade. All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown' d witt us in endless meht. Then, while """. serves, and we are but decaying. Come, my Carawc,... | |
 | Leah S. Marcus - 1989 - 340 Seiten
...fast away as do's the Sunne: And as a vapour, or a drop of raine Once lost, can ne'r be found againe: So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endlesse night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna,... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Smuts - 1987 - 340 Seiten
...of rain. Once lost, can ne'er he found again: So when or you or I are made A fahle, song or fleering shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned...endless night. Then while time serves, and we are hut decaying. Come, my Cotinna, come, ler's go a-maying." This is a frank celehration of sexual play,... | |
 | Richard Fleming, Michael Payne - 1988 - 192 Seiten
...proposal to Corinna that "Our life is short; and our dayes run / As fast away as do's the Sunne: . . . Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; / Come, my Corinna, come, let's goe a-Maying." Brooks characterizes the difference between these two attitudes as indicative of the... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 Seiten
...largely ignored by the robust Jonson, which, in one of his best known poems, serves a carpe dirm purpose: Then while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna, eome lets go a Maying. ('Corinna's going a Maying', 69-70) He also delights in the small of scale,... | |
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Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain, Once... 
