The Love Poems of John Donne: Selected and Ed. by Charles Eliot NortonHoughton, Mifflin, 1905 - 85 páginas |
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... less than of expression , which distinguishes them sharply from other poetry of the class to which they be- long . Donne is essentially English , a charac- teristically Elizabethan Englishman . There is no soft familiar Italian echo in ...
... less than of expression , which distinguishes them sharply from other poetry of the class to which they be- long . Donne is essentially English , a charac- teristically Elizabethan Englishman . There is no soft familiar Italian echo in ...
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... less eager and impassioned poets , and there is truth in the saying of Coleridge that to read Dryden , Pope , etc. , you need only count syllables , but to read Donne you must measure time , and discover the time of each word by the ...
... less eager and impassioned poets , and there is truth in the saying of Coleridge that to read Dryden , Pope , etc. , you need only count syllables , but to read Donne you must measure time , and discover the time of each word by the ...
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... less , And keep it in proportiön , Give it a diet , made it feed upon That which love worst endures , discretiön . Above one sigh a day I allow'd him not , Of which my fortune , and faults had part ; my And if sometimes by stealth he ...
... less , And keep it in proportiön , Give it a diet , made it feed upon That which love worst endures , discretiön . Above one sigh a day I allow'd him not , Of which my fortune , and faults had part ; my And if sometimes by stealth he ...
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... less than woman be . Yet know I not , which flower I wish ; a six , or four ; For should my true - love less than woman be , She were scarce anything ; and then , should she Be more than woman , she would get above All thought of sex ...
... less than woman be . Yet know I not , which flower I wish ; a six , or four ; For should my true - love less than woman be , She were scarce anything ; and then , should she Be more than woman , she would get above All thought of sex ...
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... less precious , or less tough , Figure our loves ? except in thy name thou have bid it say " I'm cheap , and nought but fashion ; fling me away . " Yet stay with me since thou art come , Circle this finger's top , which didst her thumb ...
... less precious , or less tough , Figure our loves ? except in thy name thou have bid it say " I'm cheap , and nought but fashion ; fling me away . " Yet stay with me since thou art come , Circle this finger's top , which didst her thumb ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Angels another's belief Of mutual body braver thing breath CHARLES ELIOT NORTON Countess of Bed dead death decay dost drown'd ECSTACY edition fall Falsehood fears fools friend of Donne ghost give given death's-head gone Goth grave grow hair hath heed of hating heed of loving help Lucan Homer did find hour idolatry increasèd JET RING SENT JOHN DONNE keep that hid kill kill'd lest let me love Little think'st thou live love and hate LOVE POEMS love This wonder LOVE'S DIET LOVE'S RECORDS lovers mandrake Marriage meant mistress mix'd MONTGOMERY CASTLE move oaths Pindar could allure plague plaguy bill poet poetry PRIMROSE quintessence recòrds sense shadows sonnet specular stone sphere spring stay sweet salt tears take heed taught'st thee thine eye thou art thou wast thought thy face thy heart thy love to-morrow triumph true TWICKENHAM twixt unto vulgar prove weep word writ
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Página 61 - Song Sweetest love, I do not go For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me...
Página 4 - Song Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.
Página 5 - Though she were true, when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.
Página 78 - twas of my mind, seizing thee, Though it in thee cannot persever. For I had rather owner be Of thee one hour, than all else ever.
Página 12 - And that vice-nature, custom, lets it be, I must love her that loves not me. Sure, they which made him god, meant not so much, Nor he in his young godhead practiced it.
Página 4 - Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee, Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.
Página 22 - Come, live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Página viii - To read Dryden, Pope, &c. you need only count syllables ; but to read Donne you must measure time, and discover the time of each word by the sense and passion.
Página 45 - twixt her and me. And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral statues lay; All day, the same our postures were, And we said nothing, all the day.
Página 75 - Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say 'The breath goes now,' and some say 'No'; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th...