 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1886 - 908 pages
...happy in my father's hall ; Mo faithless husband then me gricvcdf No chilling fears did me appal Yes I now neglected and despised, The rose is pale, the...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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 394 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 !...so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled, 7 " For know, when sick'ning grief doth prey, And tender love 's repaid with scorn, The sweetest beauty... | |
 | George Eyre-Todd - 1896 - 256 pages
..."And when you to me first 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...charms so prized Is, sure, the cause those charms are dead. " For know, when sick'ning grief doth prey, And tender love's repaid with scorn, The sweetest... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1898 - 936 pages
...left the blossom to decay. "Yes! now neglected and despised. The rose is pale, the lily's dead : Bnt he that once their charms so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. " For know, when pick'ning grief doth prey And tender love's repaid with scorn, The sweetest bounty will decay,— What... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1900 - 482 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1901 - 350 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 544 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 !...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 1058 pages
...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...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 610 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 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. "... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1904 - 1196 pages
...fruit And left the blossom to decay. " Tes, now neglected and despised, The rose is pale, the lily dead ; But he that once their charms so prized. Is, sure, the cause those charms are (led. " For know when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love's repaid with scorn, The sweetest... | |
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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. 
