 Were you the earth, dear love, and I the skies, My love should shine on you like to the sun, And look upon you with ten thousand eyes, Till heaven waxed blind, and till the world were done.  Examinations Papers - Page 2041896Full view - About this book
 | Poetical rhapsody - 1814 - 290 pages
...the plain, And you, my Love, as humble and as low As are the deepest bottoms of the main, Wheresoe'er you were, with you my love should go. Were you the earth, dear Love, and I the skies, My love should shiue on you like to the sun, And look upon you with ten thousand eyes, Till heav'n wax'd blind, and... | |
 | Francis Davison - English poetry - 1826 - 608 pages
...the plain, And you, my Love, as humble and as low As are the deepest bottoms of the main, Whereso'er you were, with you my love should go. Were you the...sun, And look upon you with ten thousand eyes, Till heav'n wax'd blind, and till the world were done. Whereso'er I am, below, or else above you, Whereso'er... | |
 | Poetical rhapsody - 1826 - 294 pages
...the plain, And you, my Love, as humble and a§ low As are the deepest bottoms of the main, Whereso'er you were, with you my love should go. Were you the...sun, And look upon you with ten thousand eyes, Till heav'n wax'd blind, and till the world were done. Whereso'er I am, below, or else above you, Wliereso'er... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...the plain, And you, my Love, as humble and as low As are the deepest bottoms of the main, Whereso'er you were, with you my love should go. Were you the...And look upon you with ten thousand eyes Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done. Whereso'er I am, below, or else above you, Whereso'er you... | |
 | Emily Taylor - English poetry - 1864 - 210 pages
...the plain, And you, my love, as humble and as low As are the deepest bottoms of the main, Where'er you were, with you my love should go. Were you the...look upon you with ten thousand eyes, Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done. Wheresoe'er I am, — below, or else above you, — Wheresoe'er... | |
 | English literature - 1865 - 600 pages
...J. Sylvester's pretty imitation of it:— ' Were you the earth, dear love, and I the skies, My lovo should shine on you like to the sun, And look upon you with ten thousand eyes Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were doue.' The epigrams ascribed to Plato are, as might bc^expected,... | |
 | English literature - 1865 - 600 pages
...J. Sylvester's pretty imitation of it: — ' Were you the earth, dear love, and I the skies, My lovo should shine on you like to the sun, And look upon you with ten thousand eyes Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done.' The epigrams ascribed to Plato are, as might be expected,... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1865 - 602 pages
...cannot pass from this epigram without quoting J. Sylvester's pretty imitation of it: — ' Were yon the earth, dear love, and I the skies, My love should shine on yon like to the sun, And look upon yon with ten thousand eyes Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 396 pages
...the plain, And you, my Love, as humble and as low As are the deepest bottoms of the main, Wheresoe'er you were, with you my love should go. Were you the...heaven waxed blind, and till the world were done. itticl)ael E)ragton. (BORN 1563. DIID 1631.) LOVE'S FAREWELL. \ E there's no help, come let us kiss... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pages
...upou't, e'en death himself would die Of love, at sight of yonder starry eye ! BALTHAZAR BONIFACIUS. LOVE. WERE you the earth, dear love, and I the skies, My...heaven waxed blind, and till the world were done. Imitated from PLATO by J. SYLVKSTEU. INSPIRATION. " I LOVE the poets," young Narcissa said: Quoth I,... | |
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