 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. 7073 To His Coy Mistress' not agree. 12902 'The Second Coming' The best lack...hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehe 7074 'The Definitlon of Love' My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high: It... | |
 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 pages
...now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him... | |
 | David Loewenstein, Janel M. Mueller - 2002 - 1064 pages
...otherworldliness, as phraseology shared with Andrew Marvell's 'To his Coy Mistress' suggests ('Let us .../... tear our Pleasures with rough strife, / Thorough the...our Sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run', lines 37, 43-6).11 9 Henry Vaughan, The Complete Poems, ed. Alan Rudrum (New Haven, CT, and London:... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 pages
...And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our Time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt4 pow'r. Let us roll all our Strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our Sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. 'hew: hue. 'g/ew: glow. ' slow-chapt: slow jawed. TROCHAIC TRIMETER ( -7 -7 •- ) A trochaic foot... | |
 | Shira Wolosky Weiss - 2001 - 248 pages
...now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. We recognize this as "carpe diem" at once, in the tide, which echoes Herrick's "Then be not coy." And... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 2001 - 748 pages
...and roll like a hoop. Hodgart quoted these lines from Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress": Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of Life. "I don't quite know what's going on here," Hodgart adds. Chandler Davis... | |
 | Holly Lisle - 2009 - 356 pages
...now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Seolar smiled at her and as be did she could feel him sliding away from her, not just for the moment... | |
 | Mark Morton - 2009 - 238 pages
...poet, Andrew Marvell, uses the word in this way in his erotically-charged poem, "To His Coy Mistress": Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. The ball in idioms such as "We're having a ball!" is unrelated to the... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - 2003 - 344 pages
...now, like am Vous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power, Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...one ball; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...birds of prey LOVE AND Rather at once our time devour PASSION Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ANDREW MARVELL ENGLISH (1621-1678) The Prince of Love How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted... | |
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Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. 
