No broken vows dwell here, nor pale-faced fears ; Then here I'll sit, and sigh my hot love's folly, And learn to affect a holy melancholy : And if contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it but in heaven again. Poems of John Donne - Page 270by John Donne - 1896Full view - About this book
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...dwell here, nor pale-faced fears ; Then here I'll sit, and sigh .my hot love's folly, And learn t' affect a holy melancholy : And if contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it but in heaven again. BEN JONSON. BORN 1574—DIED 1037. Bra JONSON, an eminent poet... | |
| William Howitt - Country life - 1838 - 414 pages
...cares, No broken vows dwell here, nor pale-faced fears ; Then here I'll sit, and sigh my hot love's folly, And learn to affect a holy melancholy : And if contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it but in heaven again. Such are the pleasures that lie in the path of the lover of... | |
| Sacred cabinet - 1841 - 222 pages
...dwell here, nor pale-faced fears ; Then here I '11 sit, and sigh my hot love's folly, And learn t' affect a holy melancholy: And if Contentment be a stranger, then, I'll ne'er look for it, but in heaven ngain. QU ARIES. TURN where I list, new cause of woe presents My poor... | |
| 1842 - 796 pages
...cares, No broken vows dwell here, nor pale-faced fears j Then here I'll sit, and sigh my hot love's folly. And learn to affect a holy melancholy : And if contentment be a stranger then I'll ne'er look for it, but in heaven again." These verses occur in the " Complete Angler," not very far... | |
| George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 pages
...vows dwell here, nor pale-faced fears : Then here I'll sit, and sigh my hot love's folly, And learn t' affect a holy melancholy ; And if Contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it but in Heaven again. That Í3 as much good poetry as you should have at a meal, oh... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 850 pages
...dwell here, nor pale-faced fears : Then here I'll sigh, and sigh my hot love's folly, And learn t' affect a holy melancholy ; And if contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it but in Heaven again. -Ibid. THE DIGNITY OF MAN. OH what is man, great Maker of mankind... | |
| English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...dwell here, nor pale-faced fears : Then here I'll sigh, and sigh my hot love's folly, And learn t' affect a holy melancholy ; And if contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it but in Heaven again. SIR JOHN DAVIES. BOEN, 1570; DIED, 1626. THE DIGNITY OF MAN.... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - English poetry - 1853 - 334 pages
...dwell here, nor pale-faced fears : ' Then here I'll sit, and sigh my hot love's folly, And learn t' affect a holy melancholy ; And if Contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it but in Heaven again. I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...dwell here, nor pale-faced fears t ', Then here I'll sit, and sigh my hot love's folly, 1 And learn t' affect a holy melancholy ; And if Contentment be a stranger then, ,, . I'll ne'er look for it but in Heaven again. :W I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble... | |
| Clarion tracts - 1858 - 594 pages
...cares, No broken vows dwell here, nor pale-faced fears: Then here I'll sit, and sigh my hot love's folly, And learn to affect a holy melancholy; And if contentment be a stranger then, I'll ne'er look for it but in heaven again. Sir Henry Wotton. Packet I. contains 40 Assorted Tracts. Tho... | |
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