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" twas from a heart like stone. The blushing cheek speaks modest mind, The lips befitting words most kind, The eye does tempt to love's desire And seems to say " 'tis Cupid's fire ;" Yet all so fair but speak my moan, Sith nought doth say the heart of stone. "
Old Ballads: Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date - Page 46
by Thomas Evans - 1810
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Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1

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...
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Lyrical Verse, Selected and Edited, Volume 1

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,...
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 1

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,...
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Elizabethan Lyrics from the Original Texts

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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