| Specimens - 1814 - 424 pages
...blush, thus charming as thou art: Scarce two short nights in tender joys are sped, And I am call'd intruder on thy bed. Yet would'st thou praise my person...gloomy day to make my fondness fail. Yes — thou shall; cull my bones, which tears bedew : " Propertius ! these were thine : ah tried and true ! Ah... | |
| Sextus Propertius - 1854 - 508 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...all wrongs are slight : A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief... | |
| Walter Keating Kelly - Classical literature - 1854 - 524 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy day to make my fondness fail. Yes — thou shall cull my bones, which tears bedew : " Propertius ! these were thine : ah tried and true ! Ah me... | |
| Walter Keating Kelly - Classical literature - 1880 - 542 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...wrongs are slight : • A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief... | |
| Sextus Propertius, Aristaenetus - Latin literature - 1883 - 540 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...all wrongs are slight : A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief... | |
| Sextus Propertius - 1884 - 238 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his pufFd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...all wrongs are slight : A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief... | |
| Thomas Robert Smith - English poetry - 1927 - 812 pages
...the vain braggart vaunt his puffed success; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy day to make my fondness fail. Yes—thou shalt cull my bones, which tears bedew: "Propertius! these were thine ah tried and true!... | |
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