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" Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide,... "
Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ... - Page 87
by Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 399 pages
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The girl's first help to reading; or, Selections from the best authors, by T ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pages
...her home. We shall miss the frolicsome kitten much, but the dear child far more. THE ROSE. WALLEB. Go, lovely rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and...Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have unoommended died. Small...
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A Book of Love Poetry

Jon Stallworthy - 1986 - 422 pages
...you in his arms And shatter your virginity. Translated from the French by Robert Mezey Edmund Waller Go, lovely Rose — Tell her that wastes her time...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. WALLER • SHAKESPEARE Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung...
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The Female Body: Figures, Styles, Speculations

Laurence Goldstein - 1991 - 348 pages
...thirty-five. In an undusted corner of my pre-feminist consciousness Edmund Waller plays the lute and sings: Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small a part of time they...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...We're Going to Miss Our Chance to go to Jail. BPo; CNA EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687) Go, Lovely Rose 1 e forgotten, so I would forget Thus devoted, concentrated in purpose. (1. 59-62) 6 And (1. 1 —5) 2 Then die that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; (1. 16-18) AWP;...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...but at the date 30 Of fading beauty; if it prove But as long-liv'd as present love. GO LOVELY ROSE Go lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and...Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died, 10 Small...
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Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America

David S. Shields - 1997 - 386 pages
...Lyrics," in Chernaik, The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller (New Haven, Conn., 1968), 52-114. That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How...Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...Yale University Press, 1968. Gilbert, Jack Glenn. Edmund Waller. Boston: Twayne, 1979. Go, Lovely Rose Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and...Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That, hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small...
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Give Us This Day: The Story of Prayer

Rufus Goodwin - 1999 - 262 pages
...prayer to the universe. Edmund Waller (1606-1687) speaks and talks, as in prayer, even to the rose: Go, lovely Rose! Tell her that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Like prayers, we can memorize poems and repeat them, learning them like an inner landscape to offset...
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A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker's ...

Rhonda S. Pettit - 2000 - 260 pages
...Edmund Waller's "Go, Lovely Rose," a poem in the carpe diem tradition. The first and last stanzas read: "Go, lovely Rose — / Tell her that wastes her time...her to thee, / How sweet and fair she seems to be. / / Then die — that she / The common fate of all things rare / May read in thee; / How small a part...
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The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

Shira Wolosky Weiss - 2001 - 248 pages
...with it any number of terms and parallels, may be seen in a poem by Edmund Waller (1606-1687) called "Song": Go lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time...Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied. That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small...
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