 But Sylvio soon had me beguiled: This waxed tame, while he grew wild, And quite regardless of my smart, Left me his Fawn, but took his Heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this, and very well content Could so mine idle life...  The Retrospective Review - Page 3351824Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1857 - 420 pages
...he grew wild,And quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this...very well content, Could so mine idle life have spent j For it was full of sport, and light Of foot and heart, and did invite Me to its game : it seemed... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...he grew wild, And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this, and very well content Could so my idle life have spent ; For it was full of sport, and light Of foot and heart ; and did invite Me... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 364 pages
...Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this, and very well content Could so my idle life have spent; For it was full of sport, and...foot and heart; and did invite Me to its game; it seemed to bless Itself in me. How could I less Than love it? Oh, I cannot be Unkind to a beast that... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 364 pages
...he grew wild, And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this, and very well content Could so my idle life have spent; For it was full of sport, and light Of foot and heart; and did invite Me to... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...grew wild ; And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth, I set myself to play My solitary time away, With this;...foot and heart, and did invite Me to its game. It seemed to bless 350 Itself in me ; how could I less Than love it ? OiI cannot be Unkind t' a beast... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...he grew wild, And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this...foot and heart, and did invite Me to its game : it seemed to bless Itself in me. How could I less Than love it ? Oh, I cannot be Unkind to a beast that... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...he grew wild, And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this, and very well content Could so my idle life have spent ; For it was full of'sport, and light Of foot, and heart ; and did invite Me... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...grew wild ; And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth, I set myself to play My solitary time away With this,...foot and heart, and did invite Me to its game. It seemed to bless Itself in me ; how could I less Than love it ? O, I cannot be Unkind t1 a beast that... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...he grew wild; And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this, and very well content Could so my idle life have spent; For it was full of sport, and light Of foot, and heart; and did invite Me... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 pages
...he grew wild, And quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this...foot and heart, and did invite Me to its game : it seemed to bless Itself in me ; how could I less Than love it ? OI cannot be Unkind to a beast that... | |
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