...you in his arms And shatter your virginity. Translated from the French by Robert Mezey Edmund Waller Go, lovely Rose — Tell her that wastes her time...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. WALLER • SHAKESPEARE Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung...

...thirty-five. In an undusted corner of my pre-feminist consciousness Edmund Waller plays the lute and sings: Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small a part of time they...

...We're Going to Miss Our Chance to go to Jail. BPo; CNA EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687) Go, Lovely Rose 1 e forgotten, so I would forget Thus devoted, concentrated in purpose. (1. 59-62) 6 And (1. 1 —5) 2 Then die that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; (1. 16-18) AWP;...

...but at the date 30 Of fading beauty; if it prove But as long-liv'd as present love. GO LOVELY ROSE Go lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and...where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died, 10 Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired,...

...Lyrics," in Chernaik, The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller (New Haven, Conn., 1968), 52-114. That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How...died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die!...

...Yale University Press, 1968. Gilbert, Jack Glenn. Edmund Waller. Boston: Twayne, 1979. Go, Lovely Rose Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and...died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die,...

...prayer to the universe. Edmund Waller (1606-1687) speaks and talks, as in prayer, even to the rose: Go, lovely Rose! Tell her that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Like prayers, we can memorize poems and repeat them, learning them like an inner landscape to offset...

...Edmund Waller's "Go, Lovely Rose," a poem in the carpe diem tradition. The first and last stanzas read: "Go, lovely Rose — / Tell her that wastes her time...her to thee, / How sweet and fair she seems to be. / / Then die — that she / The common fate of all things rare / May read in thee; / How small a part...

...with it any number of terms and parallels, may be seen in a poem by Edmund Waller (1606-1687) called "Song": Go lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time...died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die,...

...powers, as for the transmutation of metals, implementation of the elements, prolongation of life. Cío, lovely rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me,...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small a part of time they...