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" My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it... "
A metrical history of England; or, Recollections, in rhyme of some ... - Page 90
by Thomas John Dibdin - 1813
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The Spencer Anthology: 1548-1591 A. D.

Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...but inwardly do prate! I am, and not; I freeze, and yet am burned; Since from myself, my other self I turned! My care is like my shadow in the sun; Follows...flying! flies, when I pursue it! Stands and lies by me! do'th what I have done! This too familiar CARE doth make me rue it! Nor means I find, to rid him from...
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The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, Issues 1-5

Bibliography - 1900 - 532 pages
...and аш not — freeze, and yet I burn. Since from myself my other self I turn. My care is like a shadow in the sun — Follows me flying — flies when I pursue it, Stands and lives by me — does what I have done; This too familiar care doth make me rue it. No means I find...
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The Life of Queen Elizabeth

Agnes Strickland - Great Britain - 1924 - 746 pages
...prate ; I am, and am not — freeze, and yet I burn ; Since from myself, my other self I turn. II. " My care is like my shadow in the sun, — Follows me flying — flies when I pursue it ; Stands and lives by me — does what I have done: This too familiar care doth make me rue it. No means I find...
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The Icy Fire: Five Studies in European Petrarchism

Leonard Forster - Literary Criticism - 1969 - 234 pages
...mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows...flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done, His too familiar care doth make me rue it. No means I find to rid him from my...
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Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation

Katharina M. Wilson - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 692 pages
...inwardly do prate; I am and not; I freeze and yet am burn'd; Since from myself, my other self I turn'd. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done; His too familiar care doth make me rue it: No means I find to rid him from my...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am bumed, Since from myself my other self I tumed, My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it. Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done. His too familiar care doth make me rue it. 10 No means I find to rid him from...
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Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship

Ilona Bell - History - 1998 - 298 pages
...chance to marry and have a child. The evasive, mysterious imagery captures her conflicting feelings: "My care is like my shadow in the sun, / Follows me...flying, flies when I pursue it, / Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done" (lines 7-9). The allusion to the care-cloth that is held over a couple's heads...
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Women Poets of the Renaissance

Marion Wynne-Davies - English literature - 1999 - 426 pages
...but inwardly do prate.* I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,* 5 Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows...flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done. His too familiar care doth make me rue it. 10 No means I find to rid him from...
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Elizabeth I: Collected Works

Elizabeth I - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 488 pages
...and notes, pp. 251-53). I am, and not; I freeze and yet am burned, 5 Since from myself another self2 I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun —...flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands, and lies by me, doth what I have done; His too familiar care doth make me rue it. 10 No means I find to rid him from...
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Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works

Elizabeth I (Queen of England) - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 412 pages
...but inwardly do prate, lam, and not; I freeze, and yet am burned, [5 Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows...flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done, His too-familiar care doth make me rue it. [10 No means I find to rid him from...
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