 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1921 - 316 pagine
...like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our Time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r. 40 /Let us roll all our Strength, and all \ Our sweetness, up into one Ball : J And tear our Pleasures with rough strife, \ Thorough the Iron gates of Life. / Thus, though we... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pagine
...now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...gates of life : Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE (1628-99) NATIONAL GENIUS, POETRY AND MUSIC... | |
 | 1922 - 392 pagine
...once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-shapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all 84 Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life; Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1923 - 168 pagine
...like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our Time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r. Let us roll all our Strength, and all Our sweetness,...gates of Life. Thus, though we cannot make our Sun Stand Still, yet we will make him run. The unfortunate Lover. I. A Las, how pleasant are their dayes... | |
 | Hugh I'Anson Fausset - 1923 - 306 pagine
...assault on life, a demand for earthly pleasure, by one who has accepted a materialistic standpoint. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness,...with rough strife, Thorough the iron gates of life. In this single poem there are combined the halfmental, half-sensual conceits of the Augustans, the... | |
 | Gilbert Cannan - 1923 - 364 pagine
...stars, and, as in a peaceful lake, their light was mirrored in the soul of Francis Folyat. XXII LOVE Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...one ball And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life. ANDREW MARVELL WITH consummate skill Gertrude invented contrivances... | |
 | Arthur St. John Adcock - 1923 - 366 pagine
...all our famous writers have been contented to do one thing well — have seemed to say with Marvell, "Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball." I could name authors of our day who have dissipated their energies in half a dozen or more directions.... | |
 | Francis Henry Pritchard - 1923 - 214 pagine
...resolution of the contrast in the final injunction to his mistress to make haste. Time is short, so Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball. A similar structure will be seen in this beautiful poem on death from Ecclesiasticus : O Death, How... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1924 - 400 pagine
...like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our Time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r. Let us roll all our Strength and all Our sweetness,...gates of Life. Thus, though we cannot make our Sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ANDREW MAKVELL. THE GARDEN How vainly men themselves amaze To... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1924 - 52 pagine
...virginity . . . The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace, the conclusion, Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...with rough strife, Thorough the iron gates of life. It will hardly be denied that this poem contains wit; but it may not be evident that this wit forms... | |
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Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. 
