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" His desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair, And is lost with a toy. Of... "
Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages ... - Page 112
by Percy Society - 1852
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Studies in Henry James

Richard P. Blackmur - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 262 pages
...called. At first embrace it may seem like Raleigh's great lines at the end of "Walsinghame": But true Love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning; Never sick, never old, never dead, From it self never turning. But only at first embrace. Raleigh makes an ideal human...
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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning ...

Michael Mann - Social Science - 1986 - 564 pages
...and cultivated courtiers of his day, was about as far removed from the people as anyone of his time: But love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. This is poetry written in our vernacular. The clearest...
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A Book of Love Poetry

Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...love Or the word love abused, Under which many childish desires 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.' Dante Gabriel Rossetti AN OLD SONG ENDED 'How should I...
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Reconfiguring the Renaissance: Essays in Critical Materialism

Jonathan V. Crewe - Critical theory - 1992 - 188 pages
...gloss the scene in secret ways, as for example in identifying one source of Ophelia's derangement: Yea but Love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead From himself never turning. If the old ballad sums up what Hamlet seemed to accuse...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...promise past; He is blind, he is deaf when he list And in faith never fast. (1. 25—32) 2 But true th P. Hazen old, never dead, From itself never turning. (1. 41—44) AAS; BoLoP; ChTr; E1L; EnLoPo; EnSB; FaBoCh;...
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Niedecker and the Correspondence with Zukofsky 1931-1970

Jenny Penberthy - Literary Collections - 1993 - 406 pages
...poem?1 Lorine 1. From an anonymous 16th century poem, "Walsinghame," in A Test of Poetry, 69: But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning,...never dead, never cold, From itself never turning. A reference to "Walsinghame" appears in "A"-\2, 131. 184 dated by LN: Aug. 2, '63 als Dear Louie: Have...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...it all over with these two narrow words, Hicjacet [Here lies). 9371 'As You came From the Holy Land' 70 9744 To be without some of the things you want is an indispensab old, never dead. From itself never turning. 9372 'On the Life of Man' We die in earnest, that's no...
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Shakespeare's Songbook, Volume 1

Ross W. Duffin - Art - 2004 - 536 pages
...women kind and the world so abused: Under which many childish desires and conceits are excused. Yea but love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning: Never sick, never old, never cold, from itself never turning. PHELIA'S SONG, MOST fully presented in the 1603 Quarto,...
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Songs of Ourselves

Cambridge International Examinations - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 272 pages
...love (Or the word love abused) Under which many childish desires And conceits are excused. 'But true love is a durable fire. In the mind ever burning....never dead, never cold. From itself never turning.' when he list) when it pleases him fast] constant dureless] transient toy] unimportant thing 20 The...
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The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes

Reference - 2004 - 516 pages
...sort of fever in the mind, which ever heaves us weaker than it found us. — William Pcmr But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. —Srr Walter Raleigh 293 But there's nothing half so sweet...
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