...book did for me was to send me back to John Donne, whose magic and mystery I find more compelling: Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the De-vifs foot . . . If you remember, Donne, in the same stanza of his...

...settle down. Don't let her out of your sight. Because you have got to be happy with that result." 3. Song Go. and catch a falling star Get with child a mandrake root Tell me. where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's...

...was nor cared a damn where Banbury Cross might be, as, much later, were such lines as John Donne's, 'Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root', which also I could not understand when I first read them. And as I read more and more, and it was not...

...fetus and the plant to cry when pulled from the earth. Poets have found it symbolic, as in John Donne's Song:' Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot; Thou, when thou return'st can tell me All strange wonders...

...despairing "Song" about the infidelity of women, all of whom seem bound to betray him, says to a confidant: Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot; Teach me to hear mermaids singing — Even if his friend...

...22 It is impossible to the famous verses from John Donne's poem "Song," with its theme of falsehood: "Go and catch a falling star,/ Get with child a mandrake root,/ Tell me where all past years are,/ Or who cleft the Devil's foot" (Abrams et al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature...

...experimenting with rhyme and meter as well as complex figures of speech. Song: Go and catch a falling star Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's...

...it?" "I don't believe so, no." "I don't remember all of it. Only the beginning. But listen . . . " 'Go and Catch a Falling Star Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's...

...to Diana as she'd led him from the hospital to my waiting car, reciting for him softly all the way: Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot I'd walked behind them, my mind fiercely recording every...