 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...strife? Our own affection still at home to please Js a disease : To cross the seas to any foreign soil, rents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy...sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polish'd For being born, or, being born, to die ? LOKD BACUX. LIFE. LIFE ! I know not what thou art, But know... | |
 | Eduard Engel - English literature - 1902 - 516 pages
...them gone ( !) : What is it, then, to have or have no wife, But single thraldom or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease (!) To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peril and toil ; Wars with their noise affright us ; when they cease, We are worse in peace : In the... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - Death - 1902 - 316 pages
...wish them gone : What is it then to have or have no wife, But single thraldom or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease : To cross the sea to any foreign soil, Perils and toil : Wars with their noise affright us ; when they cease, We're... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 1058 pages
...Our own affection still at home to please Is a disease: To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peril and toil : Wars with their noise affright us; when...• What then remains, but that we still should cry For being born, or, being born, to die? FRANCIS, LORD BACON. MOAN, MOAN, YE DYING GALES. MOAN, moan,... | |
 | John Hawley Stotsenburg - 1904 - 556 pages
...wish them gone. What is it, then, to have or have no wife, But single thraldom or a double strife? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease...seas to any foreign soil, Perils and toil. Wars with the r noise affright us ; when they cease, We're worse in peace. What then remains, but that we still... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 610 pages
...What is it, then, to have or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife? Our own affection still at home to please Is a disease: To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peril and toil : Wars with their noise affright us; when they cease, We are worse in peace; — What... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - American poetry - 1905 - 628 pages
...wish them gone: What is it, then, to have, or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease : To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peril and toil: Wars with their noise affright us; when they cease, We are worse in peace ; — What... | |
 | Arthur Symons - Poetry - 1906 - 526 pages
...wish them gone: What is it, then, to have or have no wife, But single thraldom or a double strife? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease; To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peril and toil; Wars with their noise affright us; when they cease, We're worse in peace: What then... | |
 | Arthur Symons - English poetry - 1906 - 426 pages
...Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease; To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peril and toil; Wars with their noise affright us; when they cease, We re worse in peace: What then remains, but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born,... | |
 | 1906 - 306 pages
...gone. What is it then to have or have no wife, But single thraldome, or a double strife ? Our owne affections still at home to please, is a disease, To cross the sea to any foreine soyle perills and toyle. Warres with their noyes affright us : when they cease w'are... | |
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Some would have children : those that have them, moan Or wish them gone : What is it, then, to have, or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease : To cross the seas to any foreign... 
