 | John Addington Symonds - 1904 - 580 páginas
...swain ? The best of Greene's lyrical verses are in Sephestia's Song to her Child, from ' Menaphon : ' Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there 's grief enough for thee. Mother's wag, pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy ; When thy... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 504 páginas
...him, indeed, for the word " brightsome," and for two lines of Sephestia's song to her child, — " Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, there 's grief enough for thee, — " which have all the innocence of the Old Age in them. Otherwise... | |
 | Alice Meynell - 1904 - 388 páginas
...I was woe, Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy Last his sorrow, first his joy. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old there 's grief enough for thee. Streaming tears that never stint, Like pearl drops from a flint, Fell... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 346 páginas
...must kiss Child and mother, baby bliss, For he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy! so Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there 's grief enough for thee ! 1589. Robert Greene. FOREIGN LANDS UP into the cherry-tree Who should... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - 1915 - 160 páginas
...part, Tears of blood fell from his heart, When he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy.. Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby leapt; More he crow'd, more we cried, Nature could not... | |
 | Algernon Cecil - 1915 - 462 páginas
...at Hatfield.] xfi A LIFE OF ROBERT CECIL FIRST EARL OF SALISBURY CHAPTER I THE STAGE AND THE ACTOR " Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old, there's grief enough for thee." Sephestia's Song to her Child in GREENE'S " Menaphon." " FOR my own part," says Gibbon,1 in a familiar... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 páginas
...Tears of blood fell from his heart, When he left his pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy. 20 Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. The wanton smiled, father wept, Mother cried, baby leapt; More he crowed, more he cried, 25 Nature could... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 páginas
...sets down a type of bliss: A mind content both crown and kingdom is. SEPHESTIA'S SONG TO HER CHILD Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. Mother's wag, pretty boy, Father's sorrow, father's joy; When thy father first did see 5 Such a boy... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 páginas
...was woe, Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy, Last his sorrow, first his joy. 10 te up his honde, And gef hym Goddez blessyng, and gladly hym biddes 370 Streaming tears that never stint, Like pearl drops from a flint, Fell by course from his eyes, 15 That... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 páginas
...was woe, Fortune changed made him so, When he left his pretty boy, Last his sorrow, first his joy. 10 mother, who in Adcr-baijan dwells With that old King, her father, who grows grey With age Streaming tears that never stint, Like pearl drops from a flint, Fell by course from his eyes, 15 That... | |
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... wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. 
