 | Frederick William Robertson - Literature - 1858 - 376 pages
...a reproach on account of absence caused by duty : " Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." Under the influence of imagination, selfishness became honour. Doubtless, the law of honour is only... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 560 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THE SCRUTINY. Why should you say I am forsworn. Since thine I vowed to be? Lady, it is already morn, And... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more. Colonel Lovelace LXXXIV ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA You meaner beauties of the night, Which poorly satisfy... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THK SCRt'TINT. Why should you say I am forsworn. Since thine I vowed to be? Lady, it is already morn,... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. , Yet this inconstancy is such, As you, too, shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. RICHARD LOVELACE. WHEN love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. RICHARD LOYELACE. WHEN love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...stronger faith embrace a sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such as you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more. His fine lines written during his incarceration, To Althea, commence : — When Love, with unconfined... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1867 - 432 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. » Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more ! Richard Lovelace. XLVL A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING. I TELL thee, Dick, where I have been, Where I the... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...stronger faith embrace f A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ; I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more.J LOVELACE. LET me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love, Which... | |
 | 1868 - 638 pages
...Pleasures of Hope. EAB asks the author of the lines — ' Aud such is mine inconstancy, That you too shall adore : I could not love thee, dear, so much — Loved I not honour more.' We believe (but cannot at present refer) they are part of the Marquis of Ifontrose's poem to his love.... | |
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Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy... 
