 Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns, that set, may rise again ; . But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual...  Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an Historical ... - Page 388by George Ellis - 1803 - 458 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1839 - 314 pages
...Celia, let us prove Whilst we can the joys of love; Time will not be ours for ever: He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain...set may rise again ; But if once we lose this light "f -is with us perpetual night. BEN JGNSG*. Oh with that I wish to breath my last; upon thy lips Those... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
...let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever , Spend not then his gifts in vain ; Suns, that aet, may rise again ; But if once we loae this light, 'Tis with ut perpetual night. Why should we defer... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1840 - 220 pages
...Celia, let us prove Whilst we can the joys of love ! Time will not be ours forever : He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain...once we lose this light 'Tis with us perpetual night. BEN JONSOK. Oh with that I wish, to breathe my last ; upon thy lips Those equal twins of comeliness,... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 282 pages
...let us prove, ^ While we can the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain,...poor household spies? Or his easier ears beguile, Thus removed by our wile? 'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal : To be... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 pages
...let ns prove, While we may, the sports of love ; Time will not be ours forever: He, at length, our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain...should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys. Can not we delude the eyes Of a few poor household spies? Or his easier ears beguile, So removed by... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 526 pages
...let us prove, While we may, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever : He, at length, our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain...should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys. Can not we delude the eyes Of a few poor household spies ? Or his easier ears beguile, 'Tis no sin... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1861 - 256 pages
...let us prove, While we may, the sports of love ; Time will not be ours for ever : He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain...we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. The poet then runs off into a track of his own, where, pace tanti nominis, be it said, it is scarcely... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1862 - 526 pages
...occidere et redire possunt, Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, Nox est perpetub una dormienda." * " Suns that set may rise again. But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night." Volat irrevocabile tempus, time past cannot be recalled. But we need no such exhortation, we are all... | |
 | Henry Musgrave Wilkins - 1864 - 272 pages
...Celia, let us prove, While we may, the sports of luve; Time will not be ours for ever: He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain...we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night.' " Martin, р. 141. 4, 5. Comр. Hor. Od. IV. 7, 13—17. CATULLUS, 7, 12. 9. usque] " without a pause... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 538 pages
...surprised, and would fain fly ; but being seized and Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever ; Spend not then his gifts in vain...poor household spies ? Or his easier ears beguile, Thus removed by our wile ? 'Tis no sin loves friiits to steal ; But the sweet thefts to reveal : To... | |
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