 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 328 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. QUESTIONS 1. It has been noticed that this poem takes the form of logical argument: "If A . . . , then... | |
 | Roman Jakobson - 1962 - 446 pages
...once our Time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r. Let us roll all our Strength, and all 10 Our sweetness, up into one Ball: And tear our Pleasures...cannot make our Sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.1 Perhaps the most interesting pages in Poet 's Grammar by Francis Berry are devoted to English... | |
 | Gerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley - 1986 - 244 pages
...And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our Time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r. Let us roll all our Strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our Sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Like many of the best Baroque poems, "To his Coy Mistress" is a masterpiece of urbane elegance, but,... | |
 | Margarita Stocker - 1922 - 162 pages
...like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour. Than languish in his slow-chapt power. N Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...make our Sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Andrew Marvell is a man of contrasts. To all but a few students he is to-day the author of the delightful... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our Time devour, 40 Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r. Let us roll all our Strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our Sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. La patriarche et Le connesoS Guyot de Marchint, 11 From the Danse Macabre des Fern* Paris, II Like... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...my lust: The grave's a fine and private place. But none, I think, do there embrace. (1. 21—32) 35 (1. 41—46) AWP; BoLoP; EBEV; ELP; EnLoPo; ErPo; FaBV; FaFP; FF; FPL; GBL; HAP; HelP; HoPM: InPK;... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Smuts - 1996 - 314 pages
...like am'rous bird of prey, Rather at once our Time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r, 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. 10 'Crouching at home, and cruel when abroad': Restoration... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...KIERKEGAARD, (1813-1855) Danish philosopher. Either/Or, vol. 1, "Diapsalmata" (1843, trans. 1987). 4 Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ANDREW MARVELL, (1621-1678) British metaphysical poet. "To His Coy Mistress," I. 41-6 (written c. 1650,... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. COMPOSED AROUND 1650; PUBLISHED 1681. The poem is cast in the form of a lover's address to a woman... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. 7073 To His Coy Mistress' not agree. 12902 'The Second Coming' The best lack...hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehe 7074 'The Definitlon of Love' My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high: It... | |
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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. 
