 And when you first to me made suit, How fair I was, you oft would say! And proud of conquest, plucked the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay.  Kenilworth - Page viiiby Walter Scott - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 384 pages
...despis'd " The rose is pale — the lily's dead — " But he that once their charms so priz'd, ' Is sure the cause those charms are fled. " For know,...scorn, " The sweetest beauty will decay — " What flow'ret can endure the storm ? " At court I'm told is beauty's' throne, " Where every lady's passing... | |
 | Hugh Usher Tighe - Cumner - 1821 - 100 pages
...conquest, pluck'd the fruit, " Then left the blossom to decay. *' Yes, now neglected and despis'd, " The rose is pale — the lily's dead — " But he that once their charms so priz'd, " Is sure the cause those charms are fled. " For know, when sick'ning grief doth prey, " And... | |
 | Robert Laneham - English drama - 1821 - 158 pages
...is pale — the lily 's dead — " But he that once their charms so priz'd, " Is, sure, the c<iuse those charms are fled. " For know, when sick'ning grief doth prey, " And tender love 's repaid with scorn, " The sweetest beauty will decay — " What flow'ret can endure the storm... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 282 pages
...when you to me first made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And, proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit ; Then left the blossom to decay. ' Yes, now neglected and despised, The rose is pale — the lily 's dead — But he that once their charms so prized Is sure the cause those charms are dead. '... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...conquest — pluck'd the fruit, " Then left the hlossom to decay. " Yos, now, neglected and despls'd, " The rose is pale, the lily's dead ; " But he that once their charms so priz'd, " Is, sure, the cause those charms are fled. " For know, when sickening grief doth prey, "... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...when you to me first made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And, proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit; Then left the blossom to decay. ' Yes, now...lily's dead — But he that once their charms so prized Is sure the cause those charms are fled. . ' For know, when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love's... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...when you to me first made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And, proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit; Then left the blossom to decay. ' Yes, now neglected and despised, The rose is pale — the lily 's dead — But he that once their charms so prized Is sure the cause those charms are fled. '... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...when you to me first made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And, proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit; Then left the blossom to decay. ' Yes, now neglected and despised, The rose is pale — the lily 's dead — But he that once their charms so prized Is sure the cause those charms are fled. '... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 474 pages
...when you first to me made suit,. How fair I was you oft would say ! And proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. " Yes ! now...lily's dead ; But he that once their charms so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. " For know, when sick'ning grief doth prey* And tender love's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 472 pages
...when you first to me made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. «' Yes ! now...the lily's dead ; But he that once their charms so prizeil, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. " For know, when sick'ning grief doth prey, And tender... | |
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