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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. "
Old Ballads: Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date - Page 347
by Thomas Evans - 1810
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 3

William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 pages
...Treasury : — cMy 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 call a synod in thine heart I'll never love thee more. "AS Alexander I will reign, And I will reign...
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The World's Best Poetry ...

John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 608 pages
...endure my own despair, But not another's hope. WILLIAM WALSH. 15 MY DEAR AND ONLY LOVE. PART FIRST. MY dear and only love, I pray, This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchie. For if confusion have a part, Which virtuous souls...
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Lyrics

Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 346 pages
...I PRAY 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, I 'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone; My thoughts...
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The Friendly Town: A Little Book for the Urbane

City and town life - 1905 - 408 pages
...•*> ^> 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, I'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts...
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The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1907 - 892 pages
...A/TY dear and only Love, I pray ^•"•^ That little world of thee Be govern'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. Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone; My thoughts...
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The Pageant of English Poetry

Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...in distress, Finds ways enough to ease thy heaviness. B. GOOGE. 405. MY DEAR AND ONLY LOVE, I PRAY MY dear and only love, I pray This noble world of thee Be governed by no other sway But purest monarchy ; For if confusion have a part, (Which virtuous souls...
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English Poetry..: With Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Volume 40

English poetry - 1910 - 492 pages
...ONLY LOVE MY dear and only Love, I pray That little world of thee Be govern'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. Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1912 - 1104 pages
...1612-1650 MY dear and only Love, I pray That little world of thee Be govern'd by no other sway Than purest monarchy; For if confusion have a part (Which virtuous souls abhor), And liulil a synod in thine heart, I'll never love thee more. Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign...
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The Warner Library, Volume 27

Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 816 pages
...the shroud: — Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? WILLIAM KNOX, MY DEAR AND ONLY LOVE 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...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1918 - 1120 pages
...Thee more MY dear and only Love, I pray That little world of thee Be govern'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. Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone; My thoughts...
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