 | Rhonda S. Pettit - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 260 pages
...Edmund Waller's "Go, Lovely Rose," a poem in the carpe diem tradition. The first and last stanzas read: "Go, lovely Rose — / Tell her that wastes her time...her to thee, / How sweet and fair she seems to be. / / Then die — that she / The common fate of all things rare / May read in thee; / How small a part... | |
 | Shira Wolosky Weiss - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 248 pages
...with it any number of terms and parallels, may be seen in a poem by Edmund Waller (1606-1687) called "Song": Go lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time...Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied. That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...powers, as for the transmutation of metals, implementation of the elements, prolongation of life. Cío, lovely rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me,...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small a part of time they... | |
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Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide,... 
