As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls, to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move, Twere profanation of our joys... The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Walton's Lives - Page 551832Full view - About this book
| George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...shouldst painfully repent, Than by my threatenings rest still innocent. A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, "The breath goes now," and some say, "No": So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests... | |
| John Donne - Poetry - 1982 - 144 pages
...like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests... | |
| R. Wilcher - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 214 pages
...to be deliberately coarsened in the melodramatic reworking of the simile in Marvell's tenth stanza: As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: So let us melt, and make no noise . . . The contrast with Donne's... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. Jimmy, Look Back in Anger John Osborne (b. 1929) British playwright As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say The breath goes now, and some say no. John Donne (c. 1571-1631) English divine, metaphysical poet I feel... | |
| George Herbert - Poetry - 1991 - 500 pages
...religion fidelity. 101. without any apparent disturbance Cf. Donne, 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning': As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no (lines 1-4) lo2. blossom in the dust lines adapted by Walton from... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...EnLoPo; FaBoPP; MeLP; MePo; OBS; OPOP; PoEL-2; PoE; SeCP; TEP A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 67 brag of. (II, iii) 1 10 What man dare, I dare. Approach...like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros breath goes now, and some say, no; (1. 1 —4) 63 Dull sublunary lovers' love, Whose soul is sense,... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Dublin. ). P. OONLEAVY (b. 1926), US author. Sebastian Dangerfield. in The Ginger Man, ch. 31 11955). 40 breath goes now, and some say no. JOHN DONNE (c. 1572-1631), English divine, metaphysical poei. Valediction:... | |
| Jeffery Deaver - Fiction - 2009 - 530 pages
...never leaves this room." whe put the words one right after another in her mind. She said them aloud. " 'As virtuous men pass mildly away / And whisper to their souls to go . . .' " The girl lay in the single bed, on top of a universityissue yellow blanket, under a comforter... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...eve, since this Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is. A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING As virtuous men pass mildly away. And whisper to their...to go. Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests... | |
| Virginia Graham - Poetry - 1996 - 260 pages
...gold to airy thinness beat - gold is the softest metal, and can be beaten nearly into transparency. As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: 5 So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests... | |
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