 By absence this good means I gain, That I can catch her, Where none can watch her, In some close corner of my brain; There I embrace and kiss her, And so I both enjoy and miss her.  The Cornhill Magazine - Stran 377uredili: - 1876Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 strani
...Beyond time, place, and all mortality. To hearts that cannot vary Absence is Presence, Time doth tarry. By absence this good means I gain, That I can catch...brain: There I embrace and kiss her; And so I both enjoy and miss her. ANONYMOUS 99. SELF INTEREST UNIVERSAL IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS comes intent upon his particular... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - 774 strani
...time, place, and all mortality. 10 To hearts that cannot vary Absence is Present, Time doth tarry. By absence this good means I gain, That I can catch her, Where none can watch her, 15 In some close corner of my brain : There I embrace and kiss her ; And so I both enjoy and miss her.... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 640 strani
...her to your golden remembrance. There is an old English song — older, sir, than the Pilgrims: — By absence, this good means I gain, That I can catch...brain: There I embrace and kiss her: And so I both enjoy and miss her! You must not forget, Mr. President, in eulogizing the early men of New England,... | |
 | Norman Ault - 1928 - 566 strani
...Redoubled in her secret notions : Like rich men that take pleasure In hiding more than handling treasure. By absence this good means I gain, That I can catch...brain : There I embrace and kiss her, And so I both enjoy and miss her. Donne (?) or Hosldnt (?) * A Poetical Rhapsody, 1602. Lady, you are with beauties... | |
 | Henry Ten Eyck Perry - 1918 - 358 strani
...Harington (Cambridge History, IV, 209). Of his lady-love he writes : By absence jj,is good means ig^ That I can catch her, Where none can watch her, In...of my brain ; There I embrace and kiss her And so enjoy her, and none miss her. 3 M. fimile Montegut with a truly Gallic point of view imagines that... | |
 | Gary Fredric Waller - 1993 - 344 strani
...rich men that take pleasure In hidinge more then handling treasure. By absence this good means I gaine That I can catch her Where none can watch her In some close corner of my braine: There I embrace and there kiss her, And so enjoye her, and so miss her. (Bodleian Eng. poet,... | |
 | Daniel Fischlin - 1998 - 418 strani
...ofAyres (1600), possibly written by John Hoskins. I quote the final stanza: By Absence, this good meanes I gain, That I can catch her, Where none can watch her, In some close corner of my braine, There I embrace and kisse her, And so I both enioy and misse her.71 The poet's sense of the... | |
 | Richard Wightman Fox - 1999 - 462 strani
...Mary and Rodney Vail's future son-in-law, put it in describing his love for their daughter Barbara, By absence this good means I gain, That I can catch...brain: There I embrace and kiss her, And so I both enjoy and miss her. Theodore drew these lines from John Donne's "Present in Absence," in which Donne... | |
 | Gordon Braden - 1999 - 240 strani
...self-abuse in love is not a bad thing) or structured as a witty paradox: By absence this good means I gaine That I can catch her Where none can watch her In some close corner of my braine: There I embrace and there kiss her, And so enjoye her, and so misse her.53 is already sombra,... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 2006 - 470 strani
...the literal duplicate of that whimsical unknown rhapsodist who wrote of his own similar situation'By absence this good means I gain, That I can catch her,...brain: There I embrace and kiss her; And so I both enjoy and miss her/ This frame of mind naturally induced an amazing abstraction in the organist, never... | |
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