 Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. Oh, could I lose all father, now ! for why, Will man lament the state he should envy ? To have so soon 'scaped world's, and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery,...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 301redigeeritud poolt - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 440 lehte
...FIRST SON (#45) Farewell, thou child of my right hand,4 and joy; My sin was too much hope ofthee, loved boy. Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. Oh, could I lose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have so soon... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 434 lehte
...The Virgin Mary has added the baby's soul to her retinue of virgin followers. ON MY FIRST SON (#45) Farewell, thou child of my right hand* and joy; My sin was too much hope ofthee, loved boy. Seven years thou wen lent to me, and I tbee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just... | |
 | Orson Scott Card - 2001 - 606 lehte
...and let her keep Charlie, the jewel of her crown. She had grieved for him, had said and believed it, "Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; my sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy." God had brought her to the lowest day of her life, and now had lifted her out, out of the... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 lehte
...contemplates the meaning of death and often finds some consolation. ON MY FIRST SON (Ben Jonson, 1573-1637) Farewell, thou child of my right hand,' and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy; Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.2... | |
 | Jonathan F. S. Post - 2002 - 316 lehte
...child of my right hand, and joy; My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy, Seven yeeres tho'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I loose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envie? To have so soone scap'd worlds,... | |
 | David Lee Miller - 2003 - 268 lehte
...child of my right hand, and joy; My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy, Seven yeeres tho'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I loose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envie? To have so soone scap'd worlds,... | |
 | D. A. Draper, C. E. Sutcliffe, I. Pilgrim, P. Thomas - 2004 - 150 lehte
...child of my right hand, and joy; My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd hoy. Seven yeeres tho'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I loose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envie? To have so soone scap'd worlds,... | |
 | P. Thomas, I. Pilgrim - 2004 - 148 lehte
...child of my right hand, and joy; My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy. Seven yeeres tho'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I loose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envie? To have so soone scap'd worlds,... | |
 | Nils Holger Petersen, Claus Clüver, Nicolas Bell - 2004 - 532 lehte
...muted imagery that seems to bear no trace of his extraordinary subjective encounter: On My First Sou Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy, Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 lehte
...that have my Love in keeping, My cries and weeping. ANONYMOUS ENGLISH (16TH CENTURY) On My First Son Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy, Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.... | |
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