 Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love. Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again: But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual...  A progressive Latin anthology. [Ed.] by H.M. Wilkins - Side 233af Henry Musgrave Wilkins - 1864Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Ben Jonson - 1999 - 630 sider
...Come, my Celia, let us prove, 165 While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again : 170 But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys ?... | |
 | John Pitcher - 1999 - 412 sider
...set. and rise againe. But whenas our short light Comes once to set, it makes eternall night. (66-68) Suns that set. may rise again: But if once we lose this light. Tis, with us, perpetual night. (Volpone, 111, vii, 171-73) The differing sources are revealed only in Jonson's plural for Catullus's... | |
 | Richard L. Harp, Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart, Cambridge University Press - 2000 - 238 sider
...song: Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then...we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. (3.7.165- 72) Through these first eight lines Jonson's "Song" is a close yet graceful paraphrase of... | |
 | Susan Stewart - 2002 - 472 sider
...words: Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever; He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again,But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame... | |
 | Paul A. Mellow - 2002 - 302 sider
...itself becomes the very epitome of darkness and there is no Light at all. Ben Johnson put it well: "Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, Tis with us perpetual night!" —Song to Celia The Light of the World, however, is about to come back to the foreground, as the Lamb... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 2003 - 130 sider
...bosom, and at home. V Song: To Celia Come my Celia, let us prove. While we may, the sports of love; Time will not be ours, for ever: He, at length, our...we lose this light, Tis, with us, perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame, and rumour are but toys. 10 Cannot we delude the eyes Of a few... | |
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