 | John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - English language - 1907 - 520 pages
...this stanza. 8. Four-line anapaestic stanza; the second and fourth verses rhyme. xx / II xx / Ix / Know that Love is a careless child, And forgets promise...desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair, And is lost with a toy. RALEIGH (?). In the example the last foot... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - English language - 1907 - 524 pages
...this stanza. 8. Four-line anaprcstic stanza; the second and fourth verses rhyme. xx / II xx / Ix / Know that Love is a careless child, And forgets promise...desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair, And is lost with a toy. RALEIGH (?). In the example the last foot... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1912 - 1102 pages
...? I have loved her all my youth, But now am old, as you see : Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree. Know that Love is a careless child....desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy ; He is won with a world of despair, Of womenkind such indeed is the love, Or the word love abused,... | |
 | Thomas Deloney - English literature - 1912 - 652 pages
...the falling fruit, nor the withered tree. For loue is a carelesse child, and forgets promise past, 30 He is blind, he is deaf, when he list, and in faith neuer fast. His desire is fickle, fond, and a trustlesse ioy: He is won with a world of despair, and... | |
 | Valentina Hawtrey - 1915 - 534 pages
...company. " I have loved her all my youth But now am old as you see. Love likes not the falling fruit Nor the withered tree. Know that Love is a careless child,...he is deaf, when he list And in faith, never fast." Even the parson listened. Every one was now looking at her and listening, for, though they all knew... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 854 pages
...take, Who loved you once as her own, And her joy did you make? I have loved her all my youth, 25 And now old, as you see, Love likes not the falling fruit...withered tree. Know that love is a careless child, He is blind, he is deaf when he list, And forgets promise past; 30 And in faith never fast. His desire... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 858 pages
...take, Who loved you once as her own, And her joy did you make? I have loved her all my youth, 25 And now old, as you see, Love likes not the falling fruit...withered tree. Know that love is a careless child, He is blind, he is deaf when he list, And forgets promise past; 30 And in faith never fast. His desire... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1918 - 1116 pages
...? I have loved her all my youth. But now am old, as you see : Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree. Know that Love is a careless child,...desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair, Of womenkind such indeed is the lore, Or the word love abused, Under... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English literature - 1918 - 350 pages
...ballad-poem, fairly ended and closed. Now comes in the improving Elizabethan with a sophisticated moral: Know that Love is a careless child, And forgets promise...His desire is a dureless content And a trustless joy ; He is won with a world of despair And is lost with a toy. • • • • • But true love is a... | |
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But now, old as you see, Love likes not the falling fruit From the withered tree : Know that Love is a careless child And forgets promise past, He is blind, he is deaf, when he list, And in faith never fast: His desire is a dureless content, And a trustless... 
