 | Specimens - 1814 - 424 páginas
...blush, thus charming as thou art: Scarce two short nights in tender joys are sped, And I am call'd intruder on thy bed. Yet would'st thou praise my person...gloomy day to make my fondness fail. Yes — thou shall; cull my bones, which tears bedew : " Propertius ! these were thine : ah tried and true ! Ah... | |
 | Sextus Propertius - 1854 - 508 páginas
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...all wrongs are slight : A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1854 - 524 páginas
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy day to make my fondness fail. Yes — thou shall cull my bones, which tears bedew : " Propertius ! these were thine : ah tried and true ! Ah me... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1880 - 542 páginas
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...wrongs are slight : • A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief... | |
 | Sextus Propertius, Aristaenetus - 1883 - 540 páginas
...the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...all wrongs are slight : A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief... | |
 | Sextus Propertius - 1884 - 238 páginas
...the vain braggart vaunt his pufFd success ; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy...all wrongs are slight : A beauteous woman makes the burden light. Many for thee, I well believe, have sigh'd ; But few of men in constancy are tried. Brief... | |
 | Thomas Robert Smith - 1927 - 812 páginas
...the vain braggart vaunt his puffed success; One short year shall divorce your tenderness. No Sibyl's years, Herculean toils, avail, Nor that last gloomy day to make my fondness fail. Yes—thou shalt cull my bones, which tears bedew: "Propertius! these were thine ah tried and true!... | |
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... And from no miseries shrink, for sake of thee ? Ah ! would, my life ! these tasks were proved in me ! Then should we find this gallant, now so proud, Skulk his mean head among the coward crowd. Let the vain braggart vaunt his puff'd success ; One... 