 | Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1904 - 1196 pages
...flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. " Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the bods Where roses and where lilies vie, To seek a primrose whose pale shades Must sicken when those gauds are by ? u 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 1058 pages
...lady 's passing rare, That Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. " Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses and where lilies vie, " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair; Some country swain might... | |
 | Recitations - 1909 - 636 pages
...every lady's passing rare, That Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. " Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses...primrose whose pale shades Must sicken when those gauds are by ? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 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, whose pale shade Must sicken when those gauds are by f ' 'Mong rural beauties I was one — Among the fields wild... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1912 - 1230 pages
...every lady's passing rare, That eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. " Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses...primrose whose pale shades Must sicken when those gauds are by ? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...glowing, not soe fayre. ' Then, earle, why didst thou leave the bedds , ' Where roses and where lillys vie, ' To seek a primrose, whose pale shades ' Must sicken — when those gaudes are bye? ' 'Mong rural beauties I was one, ' Among the fields wild flow'rs are faire ; . ' Some countrye... | |
 | Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott - Fiction - 1999 - 520 pages
...where lillys vie, "To seek a primrose, whose pale shades "Must sicken—when those gaudes are bye? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, "Among the fields wild flow'rs are faire; "Some countrye swayne might mee have won, "And thoughte my beautie passing rare. "But, Leicester,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 446 pages
...lady ;s passing rare, That Eastern flowers, that shame the sun, Are not so glowing, not so fair. " Then, Earl, why didst thou leave the beds Where roses...primrose, whose pale shades Must sicken when those gauds are by ? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one ; Among the fields wild-flowers are fair ; Some country... | |
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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... 
