 HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy. Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing...  An Anthology of the Poetry of the Age of Shakespeare - Page 148by William Thomas Young - 1923 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...my poor heart first set free, Bound in those icy chains by theev SONG. [In the Nice Valour.] HENCE all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to sce't, But only melancholy, 'O sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms, and fixed... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...well worth transcribing : — " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein yoti spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Sweetest melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh, that piercing mortifies, A look that's... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh sweetest...eyes; A sigh that, piercing, mortifies ; A look that's fasten'd to the ground ; A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain-heads and pathless groves,... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 474 pages
...But contented lives for aye : The more he laughs the more he may. SONG. [In "The Nice Valour."] HENCE all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms, and fixed... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 444 pages
...dimensions,'' they have a merit beyond their own, in the opinion of every lover of English poetry. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights,...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to sce't, But only melancholy ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes, S A sigh,... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...dimensions," they have a merit beyond their own, in the opmion of every lover of English poetry. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights,...spend your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, i If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy; Oh! sweetest melancholy! Welcome, folded arms and... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...she, or none, Tlwt I love, and love alone. BE A UMONT and FLETCHER. SONG In the Nice Valour. JJENCE all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, 0 sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms and fixed... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...so fair to cause our moan, Or make a heart that's like our own. VIII. MELANCHOLY. FLETCHER . HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only Melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 802 pages
...And till there be more truth in meu, Never shoot at maids agen. THE THUD SONS. Mixed, all you vaine delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to scc't, . Bat oaly melancholly, 0 sweetest melancholly. Welcome folded armes and fixed eyes, A tight... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 630 pages
...Shall banish thee for ever. Cupid. Never, never ! I am too sure thine own. [Exit. Pta. [sings.] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh tliut piercing mortifies, A look that's thsteu'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound... | |
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