 | Mark Van Doren - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 340 pages
...To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many makes the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Dramatists, English - 2007 - 1288 pages
...To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair Revolts makes the hour full complete; How many hours brings about the day; How many days will finish up the... | |
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Would I were dead! if God's good will were so: For what is in this world but grief and woe ? O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point... 
