 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - English poetry - 1911 - 300 pages
...pray thee, Renny dear, That thou wilt give to me, With cream and sugar soften'd well, Another dish of tea. Nor fear that I, my gentle maid, Shall long detain the cup, When once unto the bottom I his limits, may be gauged by his uneasy ridicule. He saw the danger to the existing school of poetry,... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 488 pages
...thee, gentle Renny dear, That thou wilt give to me, With cream and sugar temper'd well, Another dish of tea. " ' Nor fear that I, my gentle maid, Shall...the bottom I Have drank the liquor up. " ' Yet hear, at last, this mournful truth, Nor hear it with a frown, Thou canst not make the tea so fast, As I can... | |
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Yet hear, alas ! this mournful truth, Nor hear it with a frown ; — Thou canst not make the tea so fast As I can gulp it down. 
