 | 1894 - 480 pages
...It is our turn now, Miss Prendergast," says Sir Stephen in a perfectly even tone. CHAPTER XXI. ' ' All women born are so perverse No man need boast their...Though God had made her for a blessing, All women bcrn are so perverse, No man need boast their love possessing.'' NELL rises and goes with him ; she... | |
 | Duchess - 1895 - 386 pages
...born are so perverse. From Adam's wife, that proved a curse Though God had made her for a blessing, All women born are so perverse, No man need boast their love possessing." NELL rises and goes with him ; she is a little perturbed. Had he heard that last speech of hers ? No.... | |
 | Lucy Bethia Walford - 1895 - 278 pages
..."but I—I am not quite so sure — I don't quite know — that / am glad." CHAPTER XVIII PERVERSITY " All women born are so perverse, No man need boast their love possessing." BRIDGES. IT is harder to lose faith in one's self than in any other human being. Aline had believed... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1899 - 314 pages
...procession, And when thine ears the fitful music catch, Rejoice, for thou art near to thy possession. RONDEAU His poisoned shafts, that fresh he dips In...boast their love possessing. If nought seem better, nothing 's worse : All women born are so perverse. From Adam's wife, that proved a curse Though God... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1899 - 308 pages
...born are so perverse. From Adam's wife, that proved a curse Though God had made her for a blessing, All women born are so perverse No man need boast their love possessing. SHORTER POEMS BOOK II TO THE MEMORY OF GMH BOOK II MUSE. \\7"ILL Love again awake, That lies asleep... | |
 | Gleeson White - 1901 - 388 pages
...disaster, When first we met ? — we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master. ROBERT BRIDGES. All women born are so perverse, No man need boast...If nought seem better, nothing's worse ; All women bom are so perverse, From Adam's wife that proved a curse, Though God had made her for a blessing.... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 pages
...will: Yet, when they have it, they abuse it, For they know not how to use it. John Fletcher [1579-1625] TRIOLET ALL women born are so perverse No man need boast their love possessing. If naught seem better, nothing's worse: All women born are so perverse. From Adam's wife, that proved... | |
 | Helen Louise Cohen - 1922 - 568 pages
...Neither the form nor the feather. What is it makes it a Hat? Many things added together. Arthur Guiterman TRIOLET All women born are so perverse No man need...perverse No man need boast their love possessing. Robert Bridges TRIOLET When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master; Of... | |
 | Helen Louise Cohen - 1922 - 570 pages
...born are so perverse. From Adam's wife, that proved a curse Though God had made her for a blessing, All women born are so perverse No man need boast their love possessing. TRIOLET Robert Bridges When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master; Of... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1922 - 472 pages
...born are so perverse. From Adam's wife that proved a curse Though God had made her for a blessing, All women born are so perverse No man need boast their love possessing. Yet this disdained woman-love has been Bridges' chief inspiration, for in his love-poems we reach the... | |
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TRIOLET ALL women born are so perverse No man need boast their love possessing. If nought seem better, nothing's worse : All women born are so perverse. From Adam's wife, that proved a curse Though God had made her for a blessing, All women born are so... 
