 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...  Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine - Page 230edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
 | John Donne - 1896 - 322 pages
...black memory. That Thou remember them, some claim as debt ; d 1 think it mercy if Thou wilt forget. Death, be not proud, though some have called thee...dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst tfiou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...worlds. There's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. j. THOMAS DEKKER— Old Fortunntta. Act I. Sc. 1. nd round about Upon the Irish shore, And gae his bridle...Adieu for evermore. A. BCRNS — It Was a' for our Rig k. DONNE— Divine Poems. Holy Sonnets. No. 17. Death in itself is nothing ; but we fear To be we know... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 356 pages
...That thou to-morrow, ere the sun doth wake, Must with this sun and me a journey take. SONNET. PiEATH, be not proud, though some have called thee ^ Mighty...canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow : And soonest our best men with thee... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 350 pages
...That thou to-morrow, ere the sun doth wake, Must with this sun and me a journey take. SONNET. r\EATH, be not proud, though some have calle'd thee Mighty...canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow : And soonest our best men with thee... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 554 pages
...little bones of neck and back, So by the Soul doth Death string Heaven and Earth. SONNET TO DEATH. Death, be not proud, though some have called thee...canst thou kill me. From Rest and Sleep, which but thy picture be, Much pleasure ; then from thee much more must flow. And soonest our best men with thee... | |
 | 1899 - 788 pages
...upon me proved, 3obn Donne 1573-1631 SONNET X.— ON DEATH (From Holy Soanets, written before 1607) Death, be not proud, though some have called thee...cans't thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture be, 6 Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow: And soonest our best men with thee... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 550 pages
...little bones of neck and back, So by the Soul doth Death string Heaven and Earth. SONNET TO DEATH. Death, be not proud, though some have called thee...: For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow From Rest and Sleep, which but thy picture be, Much pleasure ; then from thee much more must flow.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1899 - 420 pages
...passes to one of those invocations of Death himself, which were peculiarly in the spirit of the age— " Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so." Vxercising an influence on the style of Donne. One of the most remarkable of the Holy Sonnets is the... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 pages
...simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you. Ralph Waldo Emerson Death, be not proud, though some have called thee...canst thou kill me. From Rest and Sleep, which but thy picture be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow ; And soonest our best men with thee... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 420 pages
...little bones of neck and back, So by the Soul doth Death string Heaven and Earth. SONNET TO DEATH. DEATH, be not proud, though some have called thee...thou kill me. , From Rest and Sleep, which but thy picture be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow. And soonest our best men with thee do... | |
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