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...guide on this journey — it is from his "Elegy 16" that she takes the name of her new sonnet sequence: "By our first strange and fatall interview, / By all desires which thereof did ensue." She tells Dillon how happy and proud she is "that I neither fought against this love when once I had...

...published as a result of their visit to China during the Sino-Japanese War in the first part of l938. By our first strange and fatall interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue Not only do these opening lines from John Donne's "Elegie XVI: On His Mistris" give the unsuspecting...

...his Mistress when she wished to accompany him in the guise of a page By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue,...starving hopes, by that remorse Which my words' masculine persuasive force Begot in thee, and by the memory Of hurts, which spies and rivals threaten'd me, I...

...abroad, and read them with suffused features and a faltering tongue. • " By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue,...starving hopes, by that remorse Which my words' masculine persuasive force Begot in thee, and by the memory Of hurts, which spies and rivals threaten'd me, 1...

...disguise of a page. It is headed strangely enough. " Elegy on his Mistress. By our first strange and fatal interview — By all desires which thereof did ensue...hopes — by that remorse Which my words masculine persuasive force Begot in thee — and by the memory Of hurts, which spies and rivals threatened me,...