 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...deaf when he list, And in faith never fast. His desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair, And is lost with a...And conceits are excused. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. THE LIE... | |
 | Christopher Hill - 1997 - 442 pages
...soul-piercing wounds, which are ever aching while uncured': And past return are all my dandled days. £Love] is won with a world of despair And is lost with a toy. 64i) Brushfield, 'Sir Walter Ralegh and his History of the World', Trans. Devon Assoc.for the Advancement... | |
 | Alan Wall - Fiction - 2003 - 308 pages
...dureless content And a trustless joy. I think he was pleased that I could complete his quatrain: He is won with a world of despair And is lost with a toy. He looked out of the Tower to see a bird, pecking about on the roof. A maggot pie, he said with an... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 272 pages
...deaf when he list, And in faith never fast. 'His desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair. And is lost with a...conceits are excused. 'But true love is a durable fire. In the mind ever burning. Never sick, never dead, never cold. From itself never turning.' when... | |
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is won with a world of despair, And is lost with a toy: Of women-kind such indeed is the love, Or the word love abused ; Under which many childish desires And conceits are excused : But true love is a durable 
