Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 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... "
Retrospective Review - Page 36
edited by - 1823
Full view - About this book

Bell's Edition, Volumes 23-24

John Bell - 1799 - 402 pages
...wish, and adore, But after one such love can love no more. Jo 33 A VALEDICTION, FoRRIDDING MOURNING. As virtuous men pass mildly' away, And whisper to their souls to go, VVhiUt some of their sad friends do say Now his breath goes, and some say No : So let us melt, and...
Full view - About this book

Bishop Jewel. Bernard Gilpin. Richard Hooker. Archbishop Whitgift. John ...

1810 - 594 pages
...say, that none of the Greek or Latin poets did ever equal A VALEA VALEDICTORT, FORBIDDING TO MOUKN'. As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...some say no : So let us melt, and make no noise; No winds-sighs, or tear-floods us move ; Twere profanation of our joys, To tell the laity our love. Movings...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, " Now his breath goes," and some say, " No/ So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move, 'T were profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th' Earth brings harms and fears,...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr ...

Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1817 - 822 pages
...As virtuous men pass niilcHy away, And whisper to their souls to go, While tame of their sad friend* do say, The breath goes now; and some say— No : So let us melt and make no noise ; No wind-sighs or tear-floods u* move : 'Twere profanation of our joys, To tell the laity cur lore. Movings...
Full view - About this book

Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England, Volume 2

William Godwin - 1817 - 342 pages
...beautiful lines of Donne : Thus — vertuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go : While some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now ; and some say, No. Audley Mandeville was certainly not the most useful of mankind. He was engaged in no illustrious acts,...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr ...

Izaak Walton - 1824 - 422 pages
...say, that none of the Greek or Latin poets did ever equal them. A VALEDICTION, FORBIDDING TO MOURN. AS virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...some say no : So let us melt, and make no noise; No wind-sighs or tear-floods us move; 1Twere profanation of our joys, To tell the laity our love. Movings...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Volume 1

Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...say, that none of the Greek or Latin poets did ever equal them. "A VALEDICTION, FORBIDDING TO MOURN. " As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...say, ' No:' " So let us melt and make no noise; No wind-sighs or tear-floods us move, 'T were profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. " Movings...
Full view - About this book

The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Walton's Lives

1832 - 336 pages
...say, that none of the Greek or Latin poets did ever equal them. "A VALEDICTION, FORBIDDINO TO MOURN. " As virtuous men pass mildly' away, And whisper to..., Whilst some of their sad friends do say, , ' The hreath goes now ; ' and some say, ' No : ' " So let us melt and make no noise ; No wind-sighs or tear-floods...
Full view - About this book

The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...faith and lore are two. Sad faith ! "1'i- loss Indeed, the loss of faith. JOHN DONNE. THE FAKE WELL. AB virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...to go; Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breatli goes now — and some say, no; So let us melt and make no noise, ISo tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests...
Full view - About this book

The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 6

John Donne - 1839 - 598 pages
...fish, that is not catched thereby, Alas, is wiser far than I. IV. A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING f. As virtuous men pass mildly 'away, And whisper to...nor sigh-tempests move. 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears, Men reckon what it did...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF