 But if some maid with beauty blest, As pure and fair as Heaven can make her, Will share my labor and my rest, Till envious Death shall overtake her ? — Quoth Echo (sotto voce) : " Take her I  The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe - Page 232by John Godfrey Saxe - 1873 - 491 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1866 - 262 pages
...So closely that I can't get out ? Quoth Echo, laughingly : — " Get out! " VIII. But if some maidr with beauty blest ; As pure and fair as Heaven can make her, Will share my labor and my rest, WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW? A MADRIGAL. I. I KNOW a girl with teeth of pearl, And shoulders white as... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1868 - 496 pages
...she means to die a maid, — In answer to my loving letter? Quoth Echo, rather coolly : " Let her ! " VII. What if, in spite of her disdain, I find my heart...overtake her ? — Quoth Echo (sotto voce) : " Take her I " THE MAIDEN TO THE MOON." O MOON ! did you see My lover and me In the valley beneath the sycamore-tree?... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...closely that I can't get out T Quoth Echo, laughingly, — " Get ont ! " • — HUMOKOUS POEMS. 737 (sotio voce), — "Take her ! " JOHN G. SAXE. PHILOSOPHY OF HUDIBRAS. BESIDE, he was a shrewd philosopher,... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...about With Cupid's dear delicious chain So closely that I can't get out ? ,36 N HUMOROUS POEMS. 737 face Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image...Company"1 Bryant William Cullen" William Cullen Bryant ! " JOHN G. SAXE. PHILOSOPHY OF HUDJBRAS. BESIDE, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read every text... | |
 | Paul Reeves - 1872 - 236 pages
...Cupid's dear delicious chain, So closely that I can't get out? Quoth Kcho, laughingly — " Get out ! M But if some maid with beauty blest, As pure and fair...overtake her? Quoth Echo (sotto voce) — " Take her ! " As specimens of the Oration proper — which is defined as " combining Eloquence and Elocution... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1876 - 516 pages
...means to die a maid, — In answer to my loving letter ? Quoth Echo, rather coolly : " Let her ! " VII. What if, in spite of her disdain, I find my heart...overtake her ? — Quoth Echo (sotto voce) : " Take her I" THE MAIDEN TO THE MOON.4 o MOON ! did you see My lover and me In the valley beneath the sycamore-tree?... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...Cupid's dear delicious chain So closely that I can't get out ? Quoth Echo, laughingly, — "Getont!" But if some maid with beauty blest, As pure and fair...Till envious Death shall overtake her? Quoth Echo (soUo voce), — " Take her !" TRUTH.* TOPSIDE GALAH (EXCELSIOR).' THAT nightee teem he come chop chop... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...Cupid's dear delicious chain So closely that I can't get out? Quoth Echo, laughingly, — " Get out I" But if some maid with beauty blest, As pure and fair...Till envious Death shall overtake her? Quoth Echo (ftitto voce), — " Take her !" JOHN GODFREY SAKE. TOPSIDE GALAH (EXCELSIOR).* THAT nightee teem he... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 422 pages
...Cupid's dear, delicious chain, So closely that I can't get out? Quoth Echo, laughingly — "Get out I" But if some maid, with beauty blest, As pure and fair...overtake her ? Quoth Echo (sotto voce}—" Take her!" THE LOSS OF THE HORNET. Call the watch ! call the watch I " Ho I the starboard watch, ahoy /" Have you... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 426 pages
...out T' But if some maid, with beauty blest, As pure and fnir as Heaven can make her, Will shnre n-.y labor and my rest Till envious Death shall overtake her? Quoth Echo (sotto voce) — " Take her I" TITE LOSS OF THE HORNET. Call the watch ! call the watch ! " Jfo ! the itarbtird watch, ahoy !"... | |
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