| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1898 - 936 pages
...Most sicken when those gauds are by? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country swain might me have won And thought my beanty passing rare. " But, Leicester (or I much am wrong), Or 'tis not beauty lores thy vows ; Bather... | |
| Edward Arber - English poetry - 1900 - 482 pages
...Must sicken, when those gauds are by. "Mong rural Beauties, I was one! Among the fields, wild flowers are fair ! Some country Swain might me have won ; And thought my beauty passing rare ! 1 But, LEICESTER ! or I much am wrong Or 'tis not Beauty lures thy vows ! Rather Ambition's gilded... | |
| Edward Arber - English poetry - 1901 - 350 pages
...sicken, when those gauds are by. 238 "Mong rural Beauties, I was one! Among the fields, wild flowers are fair ! Some country Swain might me have won ;...Spouse ! 'Then, LEICESTER! why (again I plead! The injured surely may repine !), Why didst thou wed a country Maid ; When some fair Princess might be... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 544 pages
...Must sicken when those gauds are by? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one ; Among the fields wild-flowers are fair ; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my passing beauty rare. " But, Leicester — or I much am wrong — It is not beauty lures thy vows ;... | |
| English poetry - 1904 - 1058 pages
...beds Where roses and where lilies vie, " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair; Some country swain might me have won, And...rare. '" But, Leicester, (or I much am wrong,) Or 't is not beauty lures thy vows; Rather ambition's gilded crown Makes thee forget thy humble spouse.... | |
| Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1904 - 1196 pages
...Must sicken when those gauds are by ? u 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country swain might me have won, And thought my beauty passing rare. " But, Lester, ah ! I much am wrong, Or 'tis not beauty lures thy vows, Bather ambition's gilded crown Makes... | |
| Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1906 - 140 pages
...court-ladies all-despised ; Why didst thou rend it from that hall Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized? 'But, Leicester, or I much am wrong, Or 'tis not beauty lures thy vows ; so Rather, ambition's gilded crown Makes thee forget thy humble spouse. ' Then, Leicester, why —... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1908 - 398 pages
...Must sicken when those gauds are by? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair . Some country swain might me have won. And...passing rare. " But, Leicester, (or I much am wrong,) Or 't is not beauty lures thy vows; Rather ambition's gilded crown Makes thee forget thy humble spouse.... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...sicken when those gauds are by f ' 'Mong rural beauties I was one — Among the fields wild flowers are fair; Some country swain might me have won, And...spouse. ' Then, Leicester, why again I plead — The injured surely may repine — Why didst thou wed a country maid, When some fair princess might be thine... | |
| Recitations - 1909 - 636 pages
...Must sicken when those gauds are by ? " 'Mong rural beauties I was one, Among the fields wild flowers are fair ; Some country swain might me have won, And...thought my beauty passing rare. " But, Leicester, ah ! I much am wrong, Or 'tis not beauty lures thy vows, Rather ambition's gilded crown Makes thee... | |
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