 | 1889 - 450 σελίδες
...but often droops and dies. The best rondeau in the language, to our thinking, is Leigh Hunt's :— Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair...me, Say I'm growing old — but add, Jenny kissed me ! The form of this, indeed, is far from the correct rondeau form. But what a dainty little piece it... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 σελίδες
...whom love of God had blest, And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. Jenny Kiss'd Me Jenny kiss'd me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in;...weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have miss'd me, Say I'm growing old, but add, JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) BORN IN London, the son of a livery-stable... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 σελίδες
...quothe he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that." (1. 24) BeLS; FaPON; GN; WBLP Jenny Kiss'd Me 5 oic traces, And no (1. 5—8) BLPA; EnRP; FaBoBe; FaBV; FaFP; FF; FPL; HoPM; InPK; NBLV; NOBE; NOBVV; NTCP; OBEV; PoRA;... | |
 | Jenny Penberthy - 1993 - 406 σελίδες
...Hunt had been ill he suddenly appeared at the Carlyles and Jane rushed to kiss him, he wrote a poem: Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair...me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me. If I were there I'd run up and down your hall with Peezee in my red shoes. 'bye Lorine [ . . . ] One... | |
 | Carole S. Adler - 1993 - 150 σελίδες
...when their elderly neigh42 Carefully, she began reciting Daddy's favorite poem to herself. It started, "Jenny kissed me when we met, jumping from the chair she sat in . . ." but Daddy substituted her name in the poem. She recited it twice over to herself. Mom's hand... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 σελίδες
...strict French rondeau form only the repetition of the opening words in a short final line. RONDEAU Jenny kissed me when we met. Jumping from the chair...me. Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me. Thomas Love Peacock I 785- I 866 Peacock's satiric convivial novels, which have outlived his longer... | |
 | Marion Kelsey - 1997 - 260 σελίδες
...kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair he sat in; Time, you thief, who loves to get Sweets in to your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have miss'd me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Penny kiss'd me." At the end of each line we picked up a pair... | |
 | William Gerber - 1998 - 148 σελίδες
...theme of lines crafted by the nineteenth-century English poet Leigh Hunt, as follows: (26) Jenny kiss'd me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your lists, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have miss'd me, Say I'm... | |
 | Tom Kirkwood - 2001 - 288 σελίδες
...yourself to think that long life can be bought in a bottle. CHAPTER 16 Making more time Jenny kiss'd me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in;...have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kiss'd me. Leigh Hunt If you have gathered nothing in your youth, how can you find anything in your... | |
 | Liz Rosenberg - 2000 - 168 σελίδες
...baby, If you gonna see me die. Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine! W 40 LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859) Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair...me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me. DAVID IGNATOW (1914-1997) What have I learned that can keep me from the simple fact of my dying? None... | |
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JENNY kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me. 
