 | Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pages
...William Morris. CXCL LOVES MONARCHY. MY dear and only Love, I pray That little world of thee Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchy : For if confusion...part, Which virtuous souls abhor, And hold a synod in thine heart, I'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And' l will reign alone ; My thoughts... | |
 | Dawn - 1874 - 340 pages
...MONTROSE. 1612—1650. 'II neber Y dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchy ; For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, I 'll call a synod in my heart, And never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...MONTROSE. I 'LL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE. MY dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchy : For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, I '11 call a synod in my heart, And never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1875 - 316 pages
...died 1650.) Y dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy ; For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, And hold a synod in thine heart, 111 never love thee more. n. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 552 pages
...merit : — ' My dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy ; For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, And hold a synod in thine heart, 111 never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...I'ATMORE. I'LL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE. MY dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchy: For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous soub abhor, And hold a synod in thy heart, I'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...Thee More. My dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than absurdities, which at last they see, but cannot avoid without reckoning anew from the beginning thine heart, 1 11 never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...Sly dear and only love, I pray That little world, — of THEE, — Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls abhor, I'll call a Synod in mine heart, And never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...gazed a thousand years, I could not deeper love. SIB CHARLES SEDLEY. Dear anfo ©nig ILcbe. PART FIRST. MY dear and only love, I pray, This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchic. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads - 1878 - 580 pages
...thus : — My ''ear and only love, I pray, That little world of thee Be eoyern'd by no other sway Than purest monarchy : For if confusion have a part Which virtuous souls abhor And hold a Synod in thine heart, I.ll never love thee more, &c. This song has many political allusions : to the Synod,... | |
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I'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all. 
