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A Selection of Metaphysical Poets

Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 pages
...think, do there embrace. Now, therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, 35 And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, •40 slow-chapfted - 'chaps' are jaws. The image of a slowly-chewing jaw is a particularly powerful...
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The Persuasive Pen: An Integrated Approach to Reasoning and Writing

Nancy Carrick, Lawrence Finsen - 1997 - 324 pages
...and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now, therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing...Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chaped power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our...
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Stylistics

Richard Bradford - 1997 - 284 pages
...But none I think do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hew Sits on thy skin like moming dew, And while thy willing Soul transpires At every pore with instant Fires, Now lat us sport us while we may; And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our Time devour,...
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing...Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning glew And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore...Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball And tear our...
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Cupid's Arrow: The Course of Love Through Time

Robert J. Sternberg - 1998 - 222 pages
...ye may Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.88 Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous...Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power.89 Herrick and Marvell are afraid of death and time because both destroy carnal...
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The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

Shira Wolosky Weiss - 2001 - 248 pages
...fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew. And while thy willing...Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our...
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Strict Metrical Tradition: Variations in the Literary Iambic Pentameter From ...

David Keppel-Jones - 2001 - 304 pages
...y-beat lines. Here is an example of 4-beat lines in iambics: Now therefore, while the youthful hew Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing...Fires, Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our Time devour, Than languish in his slow-chap 't pow'r. Marvell,...
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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems

Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pages
...think do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hew: Sits on thy skin like morning glew,' And while thy willing Soul transpires At every pore...Fires, Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our Time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt4 pow'r. Let us...
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Selected Poems

Andrew Marvell - 2002 - 100 pages
...fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing...amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, 40 Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up...
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