 I rose up with the cheerful morn, No lark more blithe, no flower more gay ; And, like the bird that haunts the thorn, So merrily sung the livelong day. "If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that...  Lives of Scottish Poets - Page 98by Joseph Robertson - 1822 - 378 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 290 pages
...that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that liall Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized? "And when...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1879 - 422 pages
...merrily sung the livelong day. " If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful...proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. " Yes ! now neglected and despised, The rose is pale, the lily's dead ; But he that... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...merrily sung the livelong day. " If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1877 - 482 pages
...merrily sung the livelong day. " If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...merrily sung the livelong day. " If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall Where, scornful...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,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...sung the live-long day. ' If that my beauty is but small, ' Among court-ladies all despised ; ' Why didst thou rend it from that hall ' Where, scornful Earl ! it well was prized ? 2 regent, ruler 8 ltsued. came forth : pile, building 12 immured, buried : privity, solitude i usage,... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 126 pages
...merrily sung, the live-long day. " If that my beauty is but small, Among 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 ;10 Eather, ambition's11... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...merrily sung the live-long day. VII. If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized? VIII. And when you first to me made suit, 1 low fair I was, you oft would say 1 And, proud of conquest,... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...chilling fears did me appal. vtt. If that my beauty is but small. Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized? vtt1. And when you first to me made suit, How fair I was, you oft would say ! And, proud of conquest,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...merrily sung the livelong day. " If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized?" MICKLE : Cumnor Hall. Favour'd of heav'n who finds One virtuous rarely found, That in domestic good... | |
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