 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...when you first to me made suit, 1 low fair I was, you oft would say 1 And, proud of conquest, plucked the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. Yes ! now...sure the cause those charms are fled. For know, when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love's repaid with scorn, The sweetest beauty will decay : What... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...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. Yes ! now...so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. X. For know, when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love's repaid with scorn, The sweetest beauty... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...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. "Yes, now...sure the cause those charms are fled. "For know, when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love 's repaid with scorn, The sweetest beauty will decay ; What... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...was, you oft would say! And, proud of conquest, plucked the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. 9 'Yes! now neglected and despised, The rose is pale,...so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. 10 'For know, when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love 's repaid with scorn, The sweetest beauty... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...when you first to me made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And, proud of conquest, pluck'd hi` 4 la sure the cause those charms are fled. " For know, when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love's... | |
 | Girls - 1883 - 162 pages
...that hall Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized ? And when you first to me made suit, How fair I was, you oft would say ! And, proud of conquest, pluck'...sure the cause those charms are fled. For know, when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love's repaid with scorn, The sweetest beauty will decay : What... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 1018 pages
...when vou first to me made suit, How fair 1 was you oft would siiy ! And, proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit. Then left the blossom to decay. Yes ! now...sure the cause those charms are fled. For know, when sirk'nlng grief doth prey. And tender love's repaid with scorn. The sweetest beauty will decay— What... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Great Britain - 1883 - 422 pages
...when you first to me made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! &.nd proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. 'Yes !...dead ; But he that once their charms so prized, Is sura the cause those charms are fled. 'For know, when eick'ning grief doth prey, And tender love's... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1884 - 544 pages
..."And 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 !...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 floweret can... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...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 ! Yes!...sure, the cause those charms are fled. For know, when sickening grief doth prey, and tender love's repaid with scorn, The sweetest beauty will decay : what... | |
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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. 
