 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 pages
...cold as a virgin in lead, Nor is Sunday's sermon so strong in my head; I know but too well how old Time flies along, That we live but few years, and yet fewer are young. Would value his pleasures, contribute to mine; Not meanly would boast, and not grossly design; Not... | |
 | Charles H. Banes - 1895 - 226 pages
...nice, but the charge I deny I know two well how the time flies a long That we live but few years and fewer are young But I hate to be cheated and never will buy Whole ages of sorrow for moments of Joy I never will wed till a youth I can find Where the friend and the lover are... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1901 - 524 pages
...I declare ! ' THE FRIEND AND THE LOVER. I'M told by the wise ones, a Maid I shall die. They say, ' I'm too nice ! ' ; but the charge I deny ! I know...hate to be cheated! and never will buy Whole ages of sorrow for moments of joy! I never will wed till a Youth I can find, Where the Friend and the Lover... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1901 - 362 pages
...then, I declare!' THE FRIEND AND THE LOVER. I'M told by the wise ones, a Maid I shall die. They say, ' I'm too nice!'; but the charge I deny! I know but...hate to be cheated! and never will buy Whole ages of sorrow for moments of joy! I never will wed till a Youth I can find, Where the Friend and the Lover... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 640 pages
...or to shame : I am not as cold as a virgin in lead, Nor are Sunday's sermons so strong in my head : I know but too well how time flies along, That we...young. But I hate to be cheated, and never will buy Long years of repentance for moments of joy. Oh ! was there a man (but where shall I find Good sense... | |
 | Thomas Robert Smith - 1921 - 368 pages
...fear, or to shame. I am not so cold as a virgin in lead, Nor is Sunday's sermon so strong in my head: I know but too well how time flies along, That we live but few years, and yet fewer are young. II. But I hate to be cheated, and never will buy Long years of repentance for moments of joy. Oh! was... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...fear, or to shame : I am not as cold as a virgin in lead, Nor is Sunday's sermon so strong in my head : I know but too well how Time flies along, That we...young. But I hate to be cheated, and never will buy Long years of repentance for moments of joy. Oh ! was there a man (but where shall I find Good sense... | |
 | Roger Lonsdale, Roger H. Lonsdale - 1990 - 612 pages
...fear, or to shame: I am not as cold as a virgin in lead, Nor is Sunday's sermon so strong in my head: I know but too well how time flies along, That we...young. But I hate to be cheated, and never will buy Long years of repentance for moments of joy. Oh! was there a man (but where shall I find 10 Good sense... | |
 | Joanna Thornborrow, Shân Wareing - 1998 - 286 pages
...fear or to shame; I am not as cold as a virgin in lead, Nor is Sunday's sermon so strong in my head; I know but too well how time flies along, That we live but few years and yet fewer are young. Wordsworth and Coleridge in the late eighteenth century also deployed rhyming couplets. This is an... | |
 | Isobel Grundy - 1999 - 718 pages
...as a Virgin in Lead Nor is Sunday's Sermon so strong in my Head, I know but too well how Time flys along, That we live but few Years and yet fewer are...young. But I hate to be cheated, and never will buy Long years of Repentance for moments of Joy. This poem imagines the delicious pleasure of a love-meeting... | |
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AT length, by so much importunity press'd, Take, C , at once, the inside of my breast ; This stupid indifference so often you blame, Is not owing to nature, to fear, or to shame : I am not as cold as a virgin in lead... 
