 GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield....  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 261890Full view - About this book
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1853 - 650 pages
...honour !" There is something akin to this sentiment in that glorious stanza of one of our old poets : " Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more !" Agnes Sorel is described by the chroniclers of the time as " la plus belle des belles" — the loveliest... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - 1854 - 444 pages
...am unkind. That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. ' True, a new mistress, now I chase, The first foe in the...too shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, so much. Loved I not honor more.' " " Well done ! Well touched lute— well trolled ditty ! Brave song... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - 608 pages
...That from the nunnerie Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, To warre and arms I II ic. Trne, anew mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ;...this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; / could not love thee, deare, so mwik, Lov'd I not honour more.' In 1646 he formed a regimeut for... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...unkind — That from the memory Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True — a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field,...horse, a shield : Yet this inconstancy is such, As thou, too, shall adore — I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. JUPITER.... | |
 | 1854 - 778 pages
...nunnerie Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, To \varre and armes I flie. " True, a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith imbrace A sword, a horse, a shield. " Yet this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore ; I could... | |
 | 1855 - 834 pages
...am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True ; a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field...is such As you too shall adore ; I could not love thcc, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. TO SIB PETEK LELY, ON ШЗ PICTURE OP CHARLES I. SEE... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I choose, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield, Tet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved... | |
 | Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control - 1856 - 530 pages
...correspondent, JW, are by the cavalier-poet Colonel Richard Lovelace, and are really thus, — Bat this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore ;...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. The whole poem is quoted by Miss Mitford, in her Reminiscences. The poems of Colonel Lovelace, who... | |
 | George Willis - 1856 - 112 pages
...your correspondent, JW, are by the cavalier-poet Colonel Richard Lovelace, ami are really thus,— But this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore ;...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. The whole poem is quoted by Miss Mitford, in her Reminiscences. The poems of Colonel Lovelace, who... | |
 | George Willis - 1856 - 320 pages
...Colour:! Richard Lovelace, and are really thus, — But this inconstancy is such, As you too shtdl adore ; I could not love thee. dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. The whole poem is quoted by Miss Mitford, in her Reminiscences. The poems of Colonel Lovelace, who... | |
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