 | Peter Stockwell - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 214 pages
...Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy, Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have... | |
 | Jonathan F. S. Post - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...child of my right hand, and joy; My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy, Seven yeeres tho'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I loose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envie? To have... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Literary Collections - 2003 - 130 pages
...Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy, Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have... | |
 | David Lee Miller - English literature - 2003 - 268 pages
...child of my right hand, and joy; My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy, Seven yeeres tho'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I loose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envie? To have... | |
 | Eric K. Goodman - Fiction - 2004 - 338 pages
...Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy. Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father now. From "On My First Son" ( 1603) By Ben Jonson PART ONE: Tipton... | |
 | Nils Holger Petersen, Claus Clüver, Nicolas Bell - Christian art and symbolism - 2004 - 532 pages
...Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy, Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have... | |
 | Jeffrey Wainwright - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 248 pages
...Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy: Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O could 1 lose all father now! For why Will man lament the state he should envy, To have... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy, Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envy? THE CYCLES... | |
 | P. Thomas, I. Pilgrim - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 148 pages
...child of my right hand, and joy; My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy. Seven yeeres tho'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I loose all father, now. For why Will man lament the state he should envie? To have... | |
 | R. Clifton Spargo - History - 2004 - 338 pages
...child of my right hand, and ioy; My sinne was too much hope of dice, lou'd boy, Seuen yeeres tho'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the iust day. (i-4>29 More overt than Donne in accusing himself of a sinful attachment, Jonson may be in... | |
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Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father, now! For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age!... 
