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" Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have... "
The songs of England and Scotland - Page 85
by England - 1835
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Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review, Volumes 6-7

William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1840 - 616 pages
...the light retir'd : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir'd, And not blush so to be admir'd. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! REVIEW OF NEW JÏOOKS. Woman and her Mitster. liy Lady Morgan. Two Volumet. Carey and Hart, Philadelphia....
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Flora's Interpreter : Or, The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1840 - 280 pages
...her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Then die! that she, The common fate of all things...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Waller. SENTIMENT. Farewell! the tie is broken. Thou With all thou wert to me hast parted: I feel it...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair*. OF LOVING AT FIRST SIGHT. NOT caring to observe the wind, Or the new sea explore, Snatch'd from myself...
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The Rose Annual

Roses - 1914 - 300 pages
...blossoming if confined to the desert, "where no men abide," and then, somewhat ruthlessly, the lover bids it "die" — That she the common fate of all things rare,...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Beauty, adaptability and evanescence are, then, the attributes of the Rose that stirred the imagination...
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A Book of Love Poetry

Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! William Shakespeare FESTE'S SONG/nw* TWELFTH NIGHT O mistress mine, where are you roaming ? O ! stay...
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The Female Body: Figures, Styles, Speculations

Laurence Goldstein - Body, Human - 1991 - 348 pages
...her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair! Over a decade ago, still reading The Dialectic of Sex and planning the ultimate revolution (the one...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...That now she knows. When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. (1. 1 —5) 2 eemable. 16 Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did (1. 16-18) AWP; BoLoP; CTC; ELP; EnLoPo; FF; GBL; GoJo; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HelP; InPK; JCP; MePo: NAEL-1;...
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Thomas Hardy: The Excluded and Collaborative Stories

Thomas Hardy - Fiction - 1992 - 464 pages
...and bride were comfortably housed in a quiet hotel of the seaport town above mentioned. 21 had] hired How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair! They remained three days at Melport without having come to any 5 decision on their future movements....
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died, 10 Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired; Bid her...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair. 20 John Milton ( I 608- 1 674) A Londoner, Milton was educated at St. Paul's School and then at Christ's...
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Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America

David S. Shields - History - 1997 - 386 pages
...spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired; Bid her...of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair!32 To grasp the innovation of the poem, we must note what is traditional. The motif of the rose...
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