 | Beauties - Anthologies - 1794 - 228 pages
...lillys vie, '•' To feek a primrofe, whofe pale {hades " Muft ficken— when thofe gaudes are bye? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, " Among the fields wild flow'rs are faire; • '-' Some countrye fwayne might mee have won, " And thoughte my beautie paffing rare. " But,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1814 - 328 pages
...flowYs, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. * Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the hed Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose, whose pale shades Must sieken— when those guades are hy ? '.Mong rural heanties I was one, Among the fselds wild flow'rs... | |
 | Great Britain - 1821 - 720 pages
...where lilly's vie. To seek a primrose, whose pale shade* Must sicken — when those gauds are bye ? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flow'rs are fair*; Some cuuntrye swayne might me have won, And thought my beautie passing rare. " But, Leicester, (or I much... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1821 - 734 pages
...where lilly's vie, To seek a primrose, whose pale shadei Must sicken — when those gauds are bye ? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flow'rs are fairs ; Some countrye swayne might me have won, And thought my beautie passing rare. " But, Leicester,... | |
 | English essays - 1821 - 730 pages
...glowing, not so fayre. " Then, Earle, why didst tbou les?e the bedds Where roses and where lilly's vie, To seek a primrose, whose pale shades Must sicken — when those gauds are byt) " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild Bow'rs are fsire; Some countrye... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 282 pages
...flowers that shame the sun Are not so glowing, not so fair. ' Then, earl, why didst thou leave the bed Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose,...'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my beauty passing rare. ' But,... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...shame the sun, " Are not so glowing — not so fair. " Then, Earl, wby didst thou leave the heds " Where roses and where lilies vie, " To seek a primrose,...whose pale shades " Must sicken when those gaudes are hy ? " 'Mong rural heauties, I was one : " Among the fields, wild flowers are fair. " Some country... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...flowers that shame the sun Are not so glowing, not so fair. ' Then, earl, why didst thou leave the bed Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose,...'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my beauty passing rare. ' But,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...lady's passing rare ; That eastern flowers that shame the suu ' Then, earl, why didst thou leave the bed Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose,...'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my beauty passing rare. ' But,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...flowers that shame the sun Are not so glowing, not so fair. ' Then, earl, why didst thon leave the bed Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose,...'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my beauty passing rare. ' But,... | |
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I'm told, is beauty's throne, Where every lady's passing rare, That Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. "Then... 
