 | Poetry - 460 pages
...each her parents' ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth: Yet, all heavens' gifts, being heavens' due, It makes the father less to rue. At six months'...fleshly birth — Which cover lightly, gentle earth. ON MY FIRST SON Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved... | |
 | Alberta Turner - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1992 - 228 pages
...buried in a box of pine. PATRICIA IKEDA On My First Daughter Here lies, to each her parents' ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth; Yet all heaven's gifts...fleshly birth; Which cover lightly, gentle earth! BEN JONSON T Still to Be Neat Still to be neat, still to be dressed, As you were going to a feast;... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...SeCP; SeCV-1 glass, POETRY QUOTATIONS On My First Daughter 11 Here lies each her parents' ruth, Mary, zy locks he laves (1. 1-12) EBEV; FaBoEE; HoPM; InPS; JCP; NAEL-1; NOBE; NoP; OBS; PoE; SeCP; SeCV-1; TEP On My First... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...not so on you. (5. 34: Locb adapted) On My Firit Daughter Here lies to each her parents' ruth Mary, the daughter of their youth; Yet, all Heaven's gifts...Whose soul Heaven's queen (whose name she bears) In eomfort of her mother's tears, Hath placed amongst her virgin-train; Where, while that severed doth... | |
 | Michael J. Bugeja - Poetry - 1995 - 68 pages
...infant Only once and in that Moment is as holy. 1. VIRGINITY Here lies to each her parents' ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth: Yet, all heaven's gifts,...being heaven's due, It makes the father, less, to rue. — BEN JONSON, "On My First Daughter" THE LIFE WE SHARE I can feel it, As if this swimming were of... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - Drama - 2000 - 238 pages
...Again, Jonson introduces the theme of Christian hope into the Roman poet's context of pagan pathos: At six months' end she parted hence With safety of...comfort of her mother's tears, Hath placed amongst her virgin train; Where, while that severed doth remain, This grave partakes the fleshly birth; Which cover... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - History - 2000 - 440 pages
...less to rue. At six month's end, she parted hence ]Vith safety of her innocence; Whose soul Heaven 's Queen (-whose name she bears), In comfort of her mother's tears. Hath placed amongst her virgin train:2 Where, while that severed doth remain,^ This gl'ave partakes the fleshly birth — Which... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - History - 2000 - 434 pages
...month 's end, she parted hence With safety of her innocence; Whose soul Heaven 's Queen (whose naine she bears), In comfort of her mother's tears, Hath placed amongst her virgin train: 2 Where, while that severed doth remain? This grave partakes the fleshly birth— 1.... | |
 | J. Robert Baker, Barbara Budde - Religion - 2002 - 164 pages
...me|odye Fourteenth century In Heven bifor thi swet sone. HERE lies, to each her parents' ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth; Yet all heaven's gifts...fleshly birth; Which cover lightly, gentle earth! Ben Jonson Seventeenth century GOD inhabits what He loves And what His love sustains, and hence I see... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Literary Collections - 2003 - 130 pages
...stripes, I see, the soul may save. XXII On My First Daughter Here lies to each her parents' ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth: Yet, all heaven's gifts,...comfort of her mother's tears, Hath placed amongst her virgin train: Where, while that sever'd doth remain, 10 This grave partakes the fleshly birth. Which... | |
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On My First Daughter Here lies, to each her parents' ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth; Yet, all heaven's gifts being heaven's due, It makes the father less to rue. At six months... 
