 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 pages
...My echoing song : then worms shall try That long preserved virginity : And your quaint honour turn to dust ; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. ' Now, therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on my skin like... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 pages
...My echoing song : then worms shall try That long preserved virginity : And your quaint honour turn to dust ; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. ' Now, therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on my skin like... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - English poetry - 1889 - 168 pages
...sound My echoing song : then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust : The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning... | |
 | John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 504 pages
...My echoing song : then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity ; And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust : The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Authors, English - 1904 - 458 pages
...sound My echoing song : then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust: The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Bnt Marvel is in no way typical of the great body of the Puritans.... | |
 | City and town life - 1905 - 408 pages
...sound My echoing song ; then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now, therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning... | |
 | Edward Hutton - English poetry - 1905 - 272 pages
...sound My echoing song, then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust : The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust: The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning... | |
 | Costa Rica - 1928 - 500 pages
...sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust And into ashes all my lust: The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace. These lines are worthy of Catullus, surely, and reminiscent of... | |
 | Poetry - 1912 - 408 pages
...sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust : The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning... | |
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Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honour... 
