 | George Saintsbury - 1887 - 500 oldal
...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 love was born," and others, show this peculiarity. And it recurs in the most unexpected places, as, for the matter... | |
 | 1893 - 790 oldal
...his cascades of ringing monosyllables, his • For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love, or, I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the God of Love was born, or, O more than moon, Draw not thy seas to drown me in thy sphere. In these and similar passages, of... | |
 | 1890 - 898 oldal
...days before the Lord of Love grew tyrannous, he desires to hear the tradition from a phantom : — " I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of love was born ;" His own brief love-lyrics are likened by him to " well-wrought urns," which will preserve the ashes... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1893 - 498 oldal
...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 love was born," and others, show this peculiarity. And it recurs in the most unexpected places, as, for the matter... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 424 oldal
...obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, 35 And makes me end where I begun. LOVE'S DEITY. I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died...the god of love was born: I cannot think that he, that then loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. But since this god produced a destiny,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 412 oldal
...obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, 35 And makes me end where I begun. LOVE'S DEITY. I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died...the god of love was born: I cannot think that he, that then loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. But since this god produced a destiny,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 442 oldal
...obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, 35 And makes me end where I begun. LOVE'S DEITY. I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died...the god of love was born: I cannot think that he, that then loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn. But since this god produced a destiny,... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1895 - 472 oldal
...days before the Lord of Love grew tyrannous, he desires to hear the tradition from a phantom : — " I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of love was born ; " His own brief love-lyrics are likened by him to " wellwrought urns," which will preserve the ashes... | |
 | 1895 - 610 oldal
...limung on the body of his dead lover A bracelet of bright hair about the bone when he tells us how — I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born ; the effect is that of summer lightning on a dark night suddenly exposing unsuspected realms of fantastic... | |
 | John Donne - 1896 - 320 oldal
...discovered skeleton, identifying the lover : everybody the perfect fancy and phrase of the exordium — " I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of Love was born." But similar touches are almost everywhere. The enshrining once for all in the simplest words of a universal... | |
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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... 
