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" Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. "
Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ... - Page 143
by William Hazlitt - 1824 - 822 pages
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English poets and on ...

William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 438 pages
...now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd pow'r. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.' In Brown's Pastorals, notwithstanding the weakness and prolixity of his general plan, there are repeated...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1902 - 1118 pages
...now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ilow-chapt] slow-jawed, slowly devouring. 3 f8. The Picture of Little TC in a Prospect of Flowers CEE...
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A Book of English Love Poems: Chosen Out of Poets from Wyatt to Arnold

Edward Hutton - English poetry - 1905 - 272 pages
...like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ANDREW MARVELL THE FAIR SINGER I TO make a final conquest of all me, Love did compose so sweet an enemy,...
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The Friendly Town: A Little Book for the Urbane

Cities and towns - 1906 - 410 pages
...like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapt power ! Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Andrew Marvel!. On a Halfpenny which a Young Lady gave a Beggar, and which the Author redeemed for...
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English Poetry (1170-1892).

John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. 40 Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695) THE RETREAT Happy those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy ! Before...
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The Book of Restoration Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. A. Marvell 29. See'st Not, My Love, With What a Grace EE'ST not, my love, with what a grace The Spring...
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Century Readings for a Course in English Literature

John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - English literature - 1910 - 1174 pages
...like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. 4» ith pleasure forward led, Joying to heare the birdes...their song to scorne the cruel 1 sky. Much can the 45 Stand still, yet we will make him run. HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695) THE RETREAT Happy those early days,...
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Love Poems

Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1914 - 136 pages
...amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power. 40 Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...gates of life ; Thus, though we cannot make our sun 45 Stand still, yet we will make him run. A. MARVELL. THE ADVICE PHYLLIS, for shame, let us improve...
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English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson

Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...like amorous birds of prey Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-clmped1 power. 40 an, 1858-1928 45 Stand still, yet we will make him run. Chômas1 Caret» 1589-1639 DISDAIN RETURNED (Printed, without...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1918 - 1120 pages
...now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ilow-chapt] slow-jawed, slowly devouring. The Ticture of Little TC in a Tnspect of Flowers CEE with...
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