 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...since all Numbers are odd or even, since they fall First into five, women may take us all. THE RELI3UE. WHEN my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain, (For graves have learn'd that woman-head To be to more than one a bed) And he that digs it, spies A bracelet of bright hair about... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere ; This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere. THE RELIC. When my grave is broke up again, Some second guest to entertain, (For graves have learned that woman-head, To be to more than one a bed,) And he that digs it spies A bracelet of bright... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere ; This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere, THE KELIC. When my grave is broke up again, Some second guest to entertain, (For graves have learned that woman-head, To be to more than one a bed,) And he that digs it spies A bracelet of bright... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1895 - 438 pages
...NOTES 355 Compare with this Donne's equally subtle and even more vivid piece, The Reliqta, beginning ' When my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain, (For graves have learn'd that womanhead, To be to more than one a bed) And he, that digs it, spies A bracelet of bright hair about... | |
 | John Donne - English poetry - 1895 - 326 pages
...metrical felicity which corresponds with the intimate poetic sentiment and gives perfect expression to it: When my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain, And he that digs it spies A bracelet of bright hair about the bone, Will he not let us alone, And think... | |
 | John Donne - 1896 - 448 pages
...all. 30 1. 28. 1650, the turn \. 29. 1635, since they fall 1. 30. So 1635 ; 1633, this five THE RELIC. WHEN my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain, — For graves have learn'd that woman-head, To be to more than one a bed — And he that digs it, spies \A bracelet of bright hair... | |
 | John Donne - 1896 - 320 pages
...28. 1650, the turn 1. 29. 1635, since they fall \. 30. So 1635 ; 1633, this five VOL. I. THE RELIC. WHEN my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain, — For graves have learn'd that woman-head, To be to more than one a bed — And he that digs it, spies A bracelet of bright hair about... | |
 | John Donne - 1896 - 322 pages
...28. 1650, the turn 1. 29. 1635, since they fall 1. 30. So 1635 ; 1633, this five VOL. I. THE RELIC. WHEN my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain, — For graves have learn'd that woman-head, > To be to more than one a bed — And he that d1gs it, spies A bracelet of bright hair... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen - English literature - 1903 - 328 pages
...worship and aspiration makes one of the most extraordinary in English, is highly characteristic of Donne ' When my grave is broke up again, Some second guest to entertain, — And he that digs it spies A bracelet of bright hair about the bonr, Will he not let us alone And... | |
 | John Donne - English poetry - 1904 - 74 pages
...some of you. * Cf. TheRelique: " A bracelet of bright hair about the bone." *John Donne The Relique WHEN my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain, (For graves have learh'd that womanhead, To be to more than one a bed) And he, that digs it, spies A bracelet of bright... | |
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When my grave is broke up again Some second guest to entertain (For graves have learned that womanhead To be to more than one a bed), And he that digs it spies A bracelet of bright hair about the bone... 
