 MY DEAR mistress has a heart Soft as those kind looks she gave me; When with love's resistless art, And her eyes, she did enslave me. But her constancy's so weak, She's so wild and apt to wander, That my jealous heart would break Should we live one day...  Musa Proterva: Love-poems of the Restoration - Seite 41herausgegeben von - 1889 - 128 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Gilbert Waterhouse - 1914 - 218 Seiten
...Phyllis. (A Song : Phillis be gentler I advise, Rochester4.) 68. Liebe und Eifersucht. (A Song : My dear Mistress has a Heart Soft as those kind Looks she gave me, Rochester.) 69. Die Liebes-Schule. ( ? , Rochester.) 78. Das Dilemma. (The Dilemma, Sherburne.) 102.... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 Seiten
...anew? When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true ! Charles Sedley [1639 -1701] A SONG MY dear mistress has a heart . Soft as those kind looks she gave me; When with love's resistless art, _ And her eyes, she did enslave me. But her constancy's so weiafci .• ' ' ' She's so wild and apt... | |
 | Johannes Prinz, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester - 1927 - 512 Seiten
...with the most exquisite in the English tongue. The best known of them is perhaps the charming Song: My dear Mistress has a Heart Soft as those kind Looks...resistless Art, And her Eyes, she did enslave me, etc. 18), whose fervid stanzas breathe genuine passion from beginning to end. The same tenderness of... | |
 | Vivian de Sola Pinto - 1927 - 428 Seiten
...are as simple and direct and passionate as those of Lovelace and Brome and Jonson. In Rochester's "My dear Mistress has a Heart, Soft as those kind Looks...resistless Art, And her Eyes she did enslave me"; and Sedley's "Not Celia, that I juster am Or better than the rest, For I would change each Hour like... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1927 - 412 Seiten
...Faithless to thee, false, unforgiven, And lose my everlasting rest. Or the delicate humour of — My dear mistress has a heart Soft as those kind looks she gave m« When with love's resistless art, And her eyes, she did enslave me; But her constancy's so weak.... | |
 | Norman Ault - 1928 - 544 Seiten
...Rochester. Poems, ,ic., 1(i9ti. (Written before IU80 ; 1'ocin not in earlier EiIs.) My dear Mistress MY dear mistress has a heart Soft as those kind looks...resistless art And her eyes, she did enslave me ; But her constancy 's so weak, She 's so wild and apt to wander, That my jealous heart would break Should we... | |
 | James N. Hardin - 1992 - 174 Seiten
...technique can be seen in the way Mencke translates a "Song" by the Earl of Rochester. My dear Mistris has a heart, Soft as those kind looks she gave me,...When with Love's resistless Art, And her eyes she did inslave me; 5 But her Constancy's so weak, She's so wild and apt to wander, That my Jealous heart wou'd... | |
 | John Wilmot Earl of Rochester - 2002 - 332 Seiten
...alone, who love you most, Am killed with your disdain. 12 "Prentice Work of Song [Uncertain] [1685] My dear mistress has a heart Soft as those kind looks...eyes, she did enslave me. But her constancy's so weak — s She's so wild, and apt to wander — That my jealous heart would break Should we live one day... | |
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