 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 Seiten
...mourned like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light. 80 1623 3iomte (1573-1631) SONG Go , amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness consigned, 60 Where years past are, Or who cleft the devil's foot; Teach me to hear mermaids singing, 5 Or to keep off... | |
 | Norman Ault - 1928 - 566 Seiten
...die ? Bacon. T. Farnaby's Florilegium Epigrammatum Graecorum, 1629. (Poem written 1597-8.)* Song Go and catch a falling star ; Get with child a mandrake...What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights Till age snow... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1928 - 1390 Seiten
...taketh me Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. John "Donne SONG Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake...And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. ENGLISH 1047 If thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible go see, Ride ten thousand days... | |
 | 460 Seiten
...the tyrant Decius, where they of Ephesus, walled in a cave by slept for more than 200 years. SONG Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years arc, Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging,... | |
 | Virginia Graham - 1996 - 260 Seiten
...(also as mandragora) are not surprising. Does this read as a light-hearted, or a serious, poem? Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake...all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, 5 Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, Thomas Carlyle, 2nd ed. (1846). Letter, September 1643. 2 Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake...years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to her mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 Seiten
...of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like ( Write it!) like disaster. John Donne Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake...What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights Till Age snow... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 Seiten
...circle around a central point). FORM : Tetrameter quatrains rhyming abab, Go and Catch a Falling Star Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake...And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. I thou beest borne to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...Sermons So certainly is there nothing, nothing in spiritual things, perfect in this world 2959 'Song' Go, envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this...this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of roya 2960 'The Sun Rising' Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are... | |
 | John Donne - 1998 - 308 Seiten
...unsaid in his poetry. Sometimes he makes rhythm work against meaning, altering the written words: Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake...all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot . . . The tripping measure, like a children's game, sweeps the bitterness from a poem which — if... | |
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Song Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. 
