 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
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...quotation cannot suggest its true quality, but an extract may give some idea of its movement: 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 Its self in me. How could I less Than love it? OI cannot be Unkind t' a beast that... | |
 | R. Wilcher - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 214 pages
...lover. Consoling herself with this playmate, she retreats from the pain of desertion: Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this: and very well content, 40 Could so mine idle life have spent. For it was full of sport; and light Of foot, and heart; and... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 308 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:...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 seemed... | |
 | Patsy Griffin - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 228 pages
...the beast have exchanged roles. The nymph is satisfied with the exchange: Thenceforth I set my self to play My solitary time away, With this: and very well content, Could so mine idle Life have spent. (37-40) She could tolerate the loss of Sylvio who took away "his Heart" (36), but she cannot abide... | |
 | Virginia Graham - Poetry - 1996 - 260 pages
...grew wild, 35 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, 40 Could so mine idle life have spent. For it was full of sport; and light Of foot, and heart; and... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Poetry - 2000 - 678 pages
...Andrew Marvell's "Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Faun," lines 37-40: Thenceforth I set my self to play My solitary time away. With this: and very well content, Could so mine idle Life have spent. Poe quoted other lines from this poem with enthusiasm in a review of SC Hall's Book of Gems in the... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 504 pages
...heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this: and very well content, 40 Could so mine idle life have spent. For it was full...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, t'a beast that loveth... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 504 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, 40 Could so mine idle life have spent. For it was full of sport; and light Of foot, and heart; and... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - Literary Collections - 2002 - 100 pages
...heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away, With this: and very well content, 40 Could so mine idle life have spent. For it was full...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 loveth... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - History - 1872 - 718 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... | |
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