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 - 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...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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...grew wild ; And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I ` y2 seemed to bless Itself in me ; how could I less Than love it ? 0, I cannot be Unkind t' a beast that... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 pages
...My solitary time away, With this ; and, very well content, Could so mine idle life have spent ; 40 For it was full of sport, and light Of foot and heart...and did invite Me to its game : it seem'd to bless It self in me ; how could I less Than love it ? 0, 1 cannot be 45 Had it liv'd long, I do not know... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 564 pages
...And quite regardless of my smart, 35 Left me his faun, but took his heart. Thenceforth I set my self to play My solitary time away, With this ; and, very...well content, Could so mine idle life have spent; 40 For it was full of sport, and light Of foot and heart; and did invite Me to its game : it seem'd... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 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... | |
| American poetry - 1873 - 296 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 t' a beast that... | |
| Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 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 ? 0, I cannot be Unkind to a beast that... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 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 ? 0, I cannot be Unkind to a beast that... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...he grew wild, And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart. Thenceforth I Seeing the shepherds feed the seemed to bless Itself in me. How could I less Than love it ? Oh, I cannot be Unkind to a beast that... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 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...Could so mine idle life have spent. For it was full of sjiort, and light Of foot and heart, and did invite Me to its game. It seemed to bless Itself in me... | |
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