 Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee, why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing...  The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper - Page 493by Alexander Chalmers - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hood - 1869 - 260 pages
...sinner ? Prithee why so mute ? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do't ? Prithee why so mute ? Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move, This cannot take her ; If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her : The devil take her. EIP VAN WINKLE. WASHINGTON IRVING.... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - 1986 - 422 pages
...sinner? Prithee, why so mute ? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do 't ? Prithee, why so mute ? Quit, quit for shame! This will not move; This cannot take her. If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her. Tony Connor APOLOGUE Having a... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...why so pale? 2 Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do't? Prithee, why so mute? 3 herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! AWP; BoLoP; CaPo; ELP; EnLoPo;... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 690 pages
...ill prevail? / Prithee, why so pale?" By poem's end, the singer unleashes the full force of derision: Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move, This cannot...not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! The poem combines a high degree of the natural and the artificiaL The diction is simple and unstrained,... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...sinner? Prithee, why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do't? Prithee, why so mute? Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move, This cannot take her. If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! COMPOSED BY 1637; PUBLISHED 1638.... | |
 | William Gerber - 1998 - 148 pages
...Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Quit, quit for shame! This will not move. This cannot take her; If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her. America. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pages
...a hair of Him, they only let Him die. SUCKLING Sir John 1609-1642 4097 Aglaura 'Song' If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her! 4098 'A Ballad upon a Wedding" Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Waste of Glory, waste of God, War! SUCKLING Sir John 1609-1642 1 1269 Aglaura 'Song' If of herself peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When 1 1270 :-! Ballad upon a Wedding' Her feet beneath her petticoat. Like little mice, stole in and out,... | |
 | Peter Wild, Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire - 2001 - 294 pages
...melancholy. We tried to console him with some lines written 200 years ago, and offered them as a specific. Quit, Quit, for shame; this will not move This cannot take her If of herself she will not love Nothing will make her; — The devil take her! Now ordinarily, he was fond... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? . . . Quit, quit for shame, this will not move; This cannot take her. If of herself she cannot love, Nothing can make her. The Devil take her! Charles L. Squier, in Sir John Suckling... | |
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