 Go, lovely Rose ! 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 had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide,...  The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White ... - Page 485by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 496 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...in his arms And shatter your virginity. Translated from the French by Robert Mezey Edmund Waller Go, lovely Rose — Tell her that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. WALLER • SHAKESPEARE Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung... | |
 | Christopher Brumfit, Ronald Carter - Foreign Language Study - 1986 - 308 pages
...haughtily coy mistress, a remnant of the courtly love games of the idle European feudal classes: Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.2 They recite poems which are an English writer's nostalgic response to his landscape: I sing of... | |
 | Laurence Goldstein - Body, Human - 1991 - 348 pages
...In an undusted corner of my pre-feminist consciousness Edmund Waller plays the lute and sings: Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small a part of time they... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...We're Going to Miss Our Chance to go to Jail. BPo; CNA EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687) Go, Lovely Rose 1 Go, rgotten, so I would forget Thus devoted, concentrated in purpose. (1. 59-62) 6 And (1. 1 —5) 2 Then die that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; (1. 16-18) AWP;... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...but at the date 30 Of fading beauty; if it prove But as long-liv'd as present love. GO LOVELY ROSE Go lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me,...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,... | |
 | Cleanth Brooks - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 364 pages
...Indeed, in this instance the old-fashioned language of flowers is taken up to its highest notch. Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me,...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,... | |
 | David S. Shields - History - 1997 - 386 pages
...Lyrics," in Chernaik, The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller (New Haven, Conn., 1968), 52-114. 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,... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...University Press, 1968. Gilbert, Jack Glenn. Edmund Waller. Boston: Twayne, 1979. Go, Lovely Rose Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me...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,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. 12200 'Go, lovefy rose!' Go. se To ease my breast of melodies. 5509 'Sleep and Poetry' Stop and consider! life is but a day t lire, How sweet and fair she seems to be. 12201 'Panegyric to My Lord Protector' Rome, though her... | |
 | Rufus Goodwin - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1999 - 262 pages
...prayer to the universe. Edmund Waller (1606-1687) speaks and talks, as in prayer, even to the rose: Go, lovely Rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me,...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Like prayers, we can memorize poems and repeat them, learning them like an inner landscape to offset... | |
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