Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide,... Lotos-eating: a Summer Book - Page 98by George William Curtis - 1852 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
| George William Curtis - Atlantic States - 1854 - 222 pages
...no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired j Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired,...moonlight softens your heart as did the golden days at Baise. You, too, seat yourself in a lonely arm-chair, and your reveries harmonize with the melancholy... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pages
...her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have unoommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. HECTOR, THE GREYHOUND, GRACE GREENWOOD. HECTOR was the favourite hound of my brother Rufus, who was... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...graces spy'd, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended dy'd. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired;...time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair. HBEBICK. 0 Rose, thou flower of flowers, thou fragrant wonder, Who shall describe thee in thy ruddy... | |
| Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1854 - 276 pages
...died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to he desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair! SUNG BY MRS. KNIGHT, TO HER MAJESTY, ON HER BIRTHDAY. 'T'HIS happy day two lights are seen, - A glorious... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...desired. And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare Mny read in thee ; How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Yet. though thou fade, From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise ; And tench the maid That goodness Time's... | |
| Edwin Eddison - Sherwood Forest - 1854 - 362 pages
...and gleams of sunshine to the youths reposing at their side, but over whose green graves now — " So small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair," are written the simple words "f it Ulemorg of,"- — here — to leave the ideal for the real — we... | |
| Edwin Eddison - 1854 - 358 pages
...and gleams of sunshine to the youths reposing at their side, but over whose green graves now — " So small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair," are written the simple words "|fn $$!nnorg flf," — here — to leave the ideal for the real — we... | |
| 1854 - 362 pages
...to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How email a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! (Additional stanza by HK White.) Yet, though thou fade, From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise,... | |
| Henry Kirke White - English poetry - 1855 - 408 pages
...them to her, she discovered an additional stanza written by him nt the bottom of the song here copied. Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and...they share, That are so wondrous, sweet, and fair. [Yet, though thou fade, From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise ; And teach the maid, That goodness... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...others had been more Than to thy famish'd mind the wide world's store. BEN JONSON, 1574-1681 THE ROSE. Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and...time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Yet, though thou fade, From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise ; And teach the maid That goodness Time's... | |
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