GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield.... The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Page 344by Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 882 lehteFull view - About this book
| 1855 - 834 lehte
...crown'd I laden will return to thee, Ev'n sated with variety. TO LCCASTA.— GOING TO THE WAKS. TELL me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...is such As you too shall adore ; I could not love thcc, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. TO SIB PETEK LELY, ON ШЗ PICTURE OP CHARLES I. SEE... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 lehte
...judiciously omitted by the musical TELL ME NOT, SWEET. By EicaiEB LOVELACE, born 1618, died 1853. TELL me not, sweet, I am unkind, — That from the nunnery...too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THE RESOLVE. ALEXANDEE BEOJIE, born 1620, dicd 1663. TELL me not of... | |
| Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 lehte
...not, sweet, I am unkind, That, from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms 1 fly. *' True, a new mistress now I chase, — The...too shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, so muck, Loved I not honour mare." This soldier's services in the cause of the monarchy cost him not only... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 lehte
...nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I choose, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith...too, shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. ON LELY'S PORTRAIT OP CHARLES THE FIRST. See what an humble bravery... | |
| St. George Tucker - 1857 - 368 lehte
...atoned for all the vanity and foppishness of their unhappy author. " Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, If from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind,...foe in the field, And with a stronger faith embrace The sword, the horse, the shield. "Yet, this inconstancy is such As yon too shall adore ; I had not... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 lehte
...addresses, both of which are certainly very beautiful : — TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...too, shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, l.ov ,1 I not honour more. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 336 lehte
...and reconciles, with equal truth and grace of feeling, the soldier's and the lover's duty: — " Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That, from the nunnery..."Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore : / could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." This soldier's services in the cause... | |
| John Pendleton Kennedy - 1860 - 440 lehte
...not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arras I fly. ' True, a new mistress, now I chase, The first...too shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.' " " Well done ! Well touched lute—well trolled ditty ! Brave song... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 lehte
...For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of...too shall adore ; I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more. Colonel Lovelace LXXXIV ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA You meaner beauties of... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 lehte
...Sun in 's early ray, But shake your head, and scatter day ! TO LUCA6TA, ON GOING TO THK WARS. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THK SCRt'TINT. Why should you say I am forsworn. Since thine I vowed... | |
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