 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...cam'st to kindle, goest to come; then I Will dream that hope again, but else would die. LOVE'S DEITY I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born. I cannot think that he who then loved most Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. But since this... | |
 | John Donne - Poetry - 1982 - 144 pages
...of one, Let him still mark us, he shall see Small change, when we're to bodies gone. Love's Deity 1 long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of Love was born: I cannot think that he, who then loved most, Sunk so low, as to love one which did scorn. But since... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...wit, they're but Mummy, possessed. (1. 18-24) MePo; NAEL-1; NoP; OAEL-1; PoE; SeCP Love's Deity 39 P. bom. I cannot think that he who then loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. (1. 1—4)... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Love, all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere. 2953 'Love's Deity' elrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight. 10023 The Lay of the Last Minstrel 2954 To His Mistress Going to Bed' Licence my roving hands, and let them go, Behind, before, above,... | |
 | John Donne - Law - 1998 - 308 pages
...of one, Let him still mark us, he shall see Small change, when we'are to bodies gone. Love 's Deity I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born: I cannot think that he, who then loved most, Sunk so low, as to love one which did scorn. But since... | |
 | John Donne - English poetry - 2000 - 532 pages
...of one, Let him still mark us, he shall see Small change, when we'are to bodies gone.0 Love's Deity I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born: I cannot think that he, who then loved most, Sunk so low, as to love one which did scorn. But since... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...doing there. They told him Ford was dead.' Samuel Johnson, in Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1778) 11 I long to talk with some old lover's ghost. Who died before the god of love was born. John Donne, Love's Deity ( 1 590-16 1 5) 14 What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites... | |
 | George Saintsbury - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 489 pages
...discovery of " A bracelet of bright hair about the bone " of his own long interred skeleton : the wish— " I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of lore was born," and others, show this peculiarity. And it recurs in the most unexpected places, as,... | |
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I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born. I cannot think that he, who then loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. But since this god produced a destiny, And that vice-nature, custom, lets it... 
