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" 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... "
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The Works of Rudyard Kipling ...

Rudyard Kipling - 1898 - 450 pages
...famine-sheds, past the roaring lines of the thick, fat fires, down to the baked Gehenna of the South. PART H 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. A VALEDICTION. IT was punishing work,...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 12

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 pages
...dean of St. Paul's and vicar of St. Dunstan's. He died in 1631.] VALEDICTION, FORBIDDING MOURNING. As VIRTUOUS men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...some say, "No"; So let us melt and make no noise, No tear floods nor sigh tempests move, 'Twere profanation of our joys, To tell the laity our love. i But...
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The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature ..., Volume 12

Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...Paul's and vicar of St. Dnnstan's. He died in 1631.] VALEDICTION, FORBIDDING MOURNING. As VIBTUOUS men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to...some say, "No"; So let us melt and make no noise, No tear floods nor sigh tempests move, 'Twere profanation of our joys, To tell the laity our love. But...
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The Life and Letters of John Donne: Dean of St. Paul's, Volume 1

Edmund Gosse - 1899 - 364 pages
...metre." If Walton is to be credited, the famous " Valediction, forbidding to mourn," beginning — " As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their...say ' The breath goes now ! ' and some say • No ! ' " was written on the same occasion ; but I confess that this appears to me to belong to an earlier...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ..., Volume 8

John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 550 pages
...heaven, and here became unto us all Joy (as our joys admit) essential. 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 So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move ; 'Twere profanation of our...
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The Complete English Poems

George Herbert - 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...friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no (lines 1-4) lo2. blossom in the dust lines adapted by Walton from the dirge in James Shirley's Contention...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 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...armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any sha (1. 1 —4) 63 Dull sublunary lovers' love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence, because it doth...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Dublin. ). P. OONLEAVY (b. 1926), US author. Sebastian Dangerfield. in The Ginger Man, ch. 31 11955). 40 JOHN DONNE (c. 1572-1631), English divine, metaphysical poei. Valediction: Forbidden Mourning. 41 I...
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Frankfurt School: Vol. 2

J. M. Bernstein - 1994 - 336 pages
...virtuous men passe mildly away, And whisper to their soules, to goe, Whilest some of their sad friends doe say The breath goes now, and some say, no So let us melt, and make no noise. . . . an image both of death and of the act of love which changes — imperceptibly — to the image...
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The Collected Poems of John Donne

John Donne - 1994 - 408 pages
...virtuous men passe mildly away, And whisper to their soules, to goe, Whilst some of their sad friends doe say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: So let us melt, and rnake no noise, 5 No teare-floods, nor sigh-tempests move, T'were prophanation of ourjoyes To tell...
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