| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...The blushyng cheek speakes modest mynde, The lipps, befitting wordes moste kynde, The eye does temple to love's desire, And seems to say 'tis Cupid's fire ; Yet all so faire but speake my moane, Syth noughte dothe save the hearte of stone. Why thus, my love, so kynd... | |
| Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - 220 pages
...mock the diamond's blaze. Whence comes my woe, as freely own ; Ah me ! 'twas from a heart like stone. The blushing cheek speaks modest mind, The lips befitting...Cupid's fire ; Yet all so fair, but speak my moan, Since nought doth say the heart of stone. Why thus, my love, so kind bespeak Sweet lip, sweet eye,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...the diamond's blaze : Whence comes my woe ? as freely own ; Ah me ! 'twas from a heart like stone. The blushing cheek speaks modest mind, The lips befitting words most kind, The eye docs tempt to love's desire, And seems to say 't is Cupid's fire ; Yet all so fair but sjieak my moan,... | |
| Norman Ault - English poetry - 1928 - 566 pages
...mock the diamond's blaze. Whence comes my woe ? as freely own. Ah, me ! 'twas from a heart like stone. The blushing cheek speaks modest mind ; The lips,...Cupid's fire. Yet all so fair, but speak my moan, Since nought doth say the heart of stone. Why thus, my love, so kind bespeak Sweet lip, sweet eye,... | |
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