 Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. Oh, could I lose all father, now ! for why, Will man lament the state he should envy ? To have so soon 'scaped world's, and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery,...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - 301 psl.redagavo - 1808Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Eric K. Goodman - 2004 - 338 psl.
...2004013215 Printed and bound in the United States of America BG 10 987654321 For my brave son Ethan Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy. Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.... | |
 | Jeffrey Wainwright - 2004 - 248 psl.
...associations, if not the separate meanings, of the rhyme words is Ben Jonson's (1573-1637) 'On My First Son'. Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy: Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.... | |
 | R. Clifton Spargo - 2004 - 338 psl.
...child of my right hand, and ioy; My sinne was too much hope of dice, lou'd boy, Seuen yeeres tho'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the iust day. (i-4>29 More overt than Donne in accusing himself of a sinful attachment, Jonson may be in... | |
 | Marianne Novy - 2005 - 318 psl.
...Judéo-Christian way of dealing with a child's death: see for example Ben Jonson's "On My First Son": "Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, / Exacted by thy fate, on the just day." 11. Barbara Kingsolver, interview by Lynn Karpen, New York Times June 17,1993, 913. William Byler,... | |
 | 2005 - 132 psl.
...be As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) On my first son Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy: Seven years thou 'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.... | |
 | María Antonia Garcés - 2002 - 374 psl.
...2002004335 To the memory of my beloved son Alvaro Jose Lloreda Garces, December 20, io6z-March 17, 1998 Farewell, thou child of my right hand and joy'. My sin was too much hope ofthee, lov'd boy. — Ren Jonson, "On My First Son" Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface and... | |
 | David Cowart - 2006 - 266 psl.
...— capture and distill grief in the tremendously expressive incoherence with which they conclude: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy; Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.... | |
 | Basil Dufallo, Peggy McCracken - 2006 - 188 psl.
...motif, but it is striking that God is entirely absent from lines 3 and 4 — "Seven yeeres tho'wert lent to me, and I thee pay, / Exacted by thy fate, on the just day." Instead, Jonson speaks of the child in a series of financial metaphors that culminate in the image... | |
 | Marlé Hammond, Dana Sajdi - 2008 - 440 psl.
...the companion piece, On My First Son, Jonson shows a different category of commitment immediately: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy. In part it's his choice of meter (the more elevated iambic pentameter), in part the second-person... | |
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