 | Ballads, English - 1727 - 296 pages
...firll appear, By your fine purple mantles known, «take the proud virgins of the year, As if the fpring were all your own ; What are you when the rofe is blown ? warbling chanters of the wood, Who fill our ears \yith nature's lays, "Thinking your pailion's underftood... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1790 - 346 pages
...Ye violets that firft appear, By your pure purple mantles known> Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the Spring were all your own, What are you when the rofe is blown ? Ye curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame nature's lays, Thinking your paffions underftood... | |
 | 1793 - 376 pages
...appear, 11 By your pure'purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the fpring were all your own, What are you when the Rofe is blown ? « So, when my Miftrifs fhall be feen In form and beauty of her mind, By vertue firfti then choice,... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - English poetry - 1793 - 388 pages
...appear, 1 1 By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the fpring were all your own, What are you when the Rofe is blown > * Born 1568 ; dyed 1639. So, when my Miftrifs mall be feert In form and beauty of her mind, By vertue... | |
 | 1797 - 614 pages
...violets that first appear By your pure purple mantles known, i Like the proud "virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blswn ? " So when my mistress shall be seen, Inform and beauty of her mind, By virtue first,... | |
 | Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...violets that first appear, By your, pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the Spring were all your own ! What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my Mistress shall be seen In form, and beauty of her mind; By virtue first,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1807 - 514 pages
...that firft appear, . " By y our pur e purple mantles known, •' Like the proud virgins of the year, " As if the spring were all your own, , " What are you when the rose is blown ? " So when my mistress (hall be seen, " \ajorm and beifufy of her mind, " B) virtue... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...Ye violets lhat first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the prood virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? Ye curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame nature's lays, Thinking your... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ! What are you, when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind ; A Description of... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...violets, that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the Spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By Virtue first,... | |
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You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue... 
