 | 1922 - 392 pages
...chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity, Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try Thy long-preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust: The... | |
 | Aldous Huxley - 1922 - 236 pages
...left of us by then. He takes DORIS'S arm and they go out through the French window. Meanwhile, my pet, The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. From which we can draw only one conclusion. DORIS What's that? Wait and see. CURTAIN HUTTON ACT ONE... | |
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 pages
...chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing...private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. MARVELL, To his Coy Mistress (3) When, like committed linnets, I With shriller throat shall sing The... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1923 - 168 pages
...Song : then Worms shall try That long preserv'd Virginity : And your quaint Honour turn to durst ; And into ashes all my Lust. The Grave's a fine and...do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hew Sits on thy skin like morning glew, And while thy willing Soul transpires At every pore with instant... | |
 | Hugh I'Anson Fausset - 1923 - 306 pages
...earthy smell, and the dust driven on the wind. Then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity; The grave's a fine, and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. In the last stanza the fact of death accepted leads directly on to a fierce and primitive assault on... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1924 - 400 pages
...found; Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try That long preserv'd Virginity: And your quaint Honour turn to dust; And...do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hew Sits on thy skin like morning glew, And while thy willing Soul transpires At every pore with instant... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1924 - 52 pages
...After a close approach to the mood of Donne, then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity . . . The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace, the conclusion, Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures... | |
 | Emile Legouis - 1925 - 146 pages
...; Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound My ecchoing Song : then Worms shall try Thy long preserv'd Virginity : And your quaint Honour turn to dust ;...do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hew Sits on thy skin like morning dew And while thy wllling Soul transpires At every pore with instant... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1925 - 324 pages
...chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long-preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's... | |
 | Vera Meynell - 1925 - 378 pages
...hurrying near : And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found ; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song ; then worms shall try That long-preserv'd virginity : And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's... | |
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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long preserved... 
