| 1788 - 510 pages
...That three such graces did unto me give. Eij SONNET LXXV. ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand,But came the waves and washed it away; Again I wrote it...made my pains his prey. Vain Man ! said she, that doost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I my self shall like to this decay, And eke... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 600 pages
...praysed. Ye three Elizabeths ! for ever live, That three such (races did unto me give. SONNET LXXV. On day I wrote her name upon the strand ; But came the waves, and washed it away : AL ay nr, I wrote it with a second band ; But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. " Vayne... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...praysed. Ye three Elizabeths ! for ever live, That three such graces did unto me give. SONNET LXXV. ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand; But came the waves, and washed it away: Agayne, I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. Vayne man, sayd... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1825 - 450 pages
...to be praysed. Ye three Elizabeths ! for ever live. That three such graces did unto me give. LXXV. ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand ; But came the waves, and washed it away : Agayne, I wrote it with a second hand ; But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. Vayne man,... | |
| Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...from such men are not the delusions of self-conceit, but the prophetic intimations of genius. SONNET. One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away : Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde, and made my paynes his prey. Yavne man,... | |
| A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...and praises over all, That it hereafter may you not repent, Him lodging in your bosom to have lent. ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came...she, that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wiped out likewise. Not so,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1853 - 442 pages
...to be praysed. Ye three Elizabeths ! for ever live, That three such graces did unto me give. JLXXV. ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand ; But came the waves, and washed it away : Agayne, I wrote it with a second hand ; But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. Vayne man,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1857 - 600 pages
...worthy to be praysed. Ye three Elizabeths ! for ever live, That three such graces did unto me give. ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand ; But came the waves, and washed it away : Agayne. I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tyde, nnd made my paynes his pray. Vayne man,... | |
| Samuel Lover - 1858 - 394 pages
...proof of this : — but let the " divine Spenser" answer for all, and with prophetic passion ;— " One day I wrote her name upon the strand ; But came the waves, and washed it away : Agayne, I wrote it with a second hand ; But came the tyde, and made my paynes his prey. Vayne man,... | |
| Edward Young - 1860 - 416 pages
...to be praysed. Ye three Elizabeths ! for ever live, That three such graces did unto me give. LXXV. ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away : Agayne I wrote it with a second hand ; But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. " Vayne man,"... | |
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