 Hermes' rod, And powerful, too, as either god TO PHYLLIS. PHYLLIS ! why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day Could we (which we never can Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies. Or would...  The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose - Page 44by Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...will fly for fear, My spouse Nancy. liUKNS. To Phyllis. Phyllis, why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day ? Could we (which we never can) Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies : Or, would youth and beauty stay, Love... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...ft., ..' Id . ..•.. I• • •• i, '..Mi . i ,t • ' . 'i fritl Vt if . .' Beauty like a shadow stay, Love hath wings, and will away. Love hath swifter wings than Time ; Change in love to Heaven... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 404 pages
...Hermes' rod, And pow'rful, too, as either god. TO PHYLLIS. PHYLLIS! why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day? Could we (which we never can!) Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies. Or would youth and beauty stay, Love... | |
 | Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham - 1857 - 380 pages
...than the day? Could we (which we never can!) Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies. Or would youth and beauty stay, Love hath wings, and will away. Love hath swifter wings than Time, Change in love to heaven does... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...his native stream. BW PROCTF.R 313 • TO PHYLLIS "PHYLLIS! why should we delay JT pleasures shorter than the day? Could we (which we never can) stretch our lives beyond their span; beauty like a shadow flies, and our youth before us dies. Or would youth and beauty stay, Love... | |
 | sir John Mennes - 1874 - 568 pages
...the quarry, but the flight. The cunning Curtezan. Sir tell me, why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day ? Could we, which we never can, Stretch our lives beyond their span ; Beauty, like a shadow flyes, And our youth before us dyes ; Or would youth and beauty stay,... | |
 | Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pages
...William Shahespeare. XXXIL THE TIME FOR LOVE. WHY DELAY? PHYLLIS ! why should we delay Pleasures shorter than the day ? Could we (which we never can !) Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, And our youth before us dies. Or, would youth and beauty stay, Love... | |
 | Tom Hood - English language - 1877 - 348 pages
...th;in the Day? Could we, which we never can, Strelch our Lives beyo' d their Span, Beauty ! ke a Shadow flies. And our Youth before us dies. Or would Youth and Beauty stay. Love has Wings, and will away. Love has swifter Wings lhan Time." But the second verse of the... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - English poetry - 1890 - 530 pages
...than the dny ? could we (which we never can) stretch our lives beyond their span, beauty like a shadow flies. and our youth before us dies : or, would youth and beauty stay, Love hath wings, aud will away. Love hath swifter wings than Time ; change in love to heaven... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 392 pages
...Occasions, 1645 ; date of writing uncertain. TO PHYLLIS. PHYLLIS, why should we delay, Pleasures shorter than the day ? Could we (which we never can) Stretch our lives beyond their span, Beauty like a shadow flies, 5 And our youth before us dies ; Or, would youth and beauty stay,... | |
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