 | James Dickey - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 412 pages
...Marvell was? He's a poet roughly of the time of John Donne and Milton whose obsession was with death. "The grave's a fine and private place / But none I think do there embrace." But what MacLeish does is to take the shadow of the earth as it revolves, and tell how it crosses various... | |
 | 2005 - 334 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...try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust: The grave's a fine and prívate place, But none, I... | |
 | Mandy Newman, June Newman - Self-Help - 2005 - 244 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...try That long preserved virginity: And your quaint honor turn to dust; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think,... | |
 | Peter Hühn, Jens Kiefer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 276 pages
...hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. 25 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; 30 And into ashes all my lust. The grave's... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 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 honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust: 30 The grave's... | |
 | Djuna Barnes - Biography - 2005 - 316 pages
...Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," the speaker reminds his beloved that the grave awaits even lovers: "The grave's a fine and private place, / But none, I think, do there embrace." The gothic tradition of DB's youth is still a strong interest here, but there is a new, tough-minded... | |
 | Gabrielle Roy, Joyce Marshall - Literary Collections - 2005 - 297 pages
...phrase is taken from the poem 'To His Coy Mistress' written by English poet Andrew Marvell (1621-78): 'The grave's a fine and private place, / But none, I think, do there embrace' (lines 31-2). you know)253 and I didn't want him to think I had deliberately latched onto part of his... | |
 | Joseph Blotner - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 800 pages
...burden was the same as in the previous poems. Marvell had put it in two lines to his coy mistress: The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. There was nothing of the marble faun's gentle melancholy pastoral lament in these poems. They were... | |
 | Nancy Pearl - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 308 pages
...as you'll ever read. It definitely proves wrong Andrew Marvell's assertion in "To His Coy Mistress" ("The grave's a fine and private place, / But none, I think do there embrace"). Bill Richardson is probably best known for his humorous novels Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast and... | |
 | Colin Bingham - Social Science - 2006 - 428 pages
...And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in the marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms...private place, But none I think do there embrace. . . . ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress "But none I think do there embrace," ie in the grave; however... | |
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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... 
