 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing! Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; 5 ne times the space that measures day and night so...mortal men, he, with his horrid crew, Lay vanquished, r turned to holy psalms, A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are Old... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...GEORGE PEELE (1558?-! 597?) FAREWELL TO ARMS Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; 5 RUS Bacchus' blessings arc a treasure, Drinking is...soldier's pleasure; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasur turned to holy psalms, A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are age... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...in vain ; youth waneth by increasing : Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen ; • 5 ; whose voice, attuned above All turned to holy psalms, A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are age... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spumed, But spumed in vain; youth waneth by increasing. Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. Love, hate, nostalgia and death are the great themes. Time is the one great leveller. Time has always... | |
 | Poetry - 460 pages
...age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing. Beauty, strength, youth arc flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love are roots...green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And, lover's sonnets turned to holy psalms, A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing. 87) 5 Once more La Traviata sighs Another sadder song; Once more II Trovatore cries A tale of de ChTr; E1L; ELP; FaBoRV; HelP; InPS; NOBE; NoP; OBEV; OBSC; OBWP; PoEL-2; PoRA; TrGrPo PETRARCH (FRANCESCO... | |
 | Arthur Waldhorn - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 322 pages
...poet George Peele in which he bemoans that age has deprived him of his skills as soldier and lover: "His helmet now shall make a hive for bees; /And, lovers' sonnets turn'd to holy psalms . . ." See Oxford Book of English Verse, p. 151. 6. Film versions were made in 1932 and 1957. WJ Frohock... | |
 | Shirley Sharon-Zisser - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 224 pages
...ceasing: His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing. Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers, but fading seen; Duty, faith, love are roots, and ever green.17 Lee's courtly lyric, addressed to the Queen and performed at the annual Accession Day celebration,... | |
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gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing: Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees; And, lovers... 
