 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
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...merrily sung the live-long day. "Say 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... | |
 | Readers - 1880 - 404 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 ; Rather, ambition's gilded... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...merrily eung the livelong day. " If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why oates blossom to decay. " Yes ! now neglected and despised, The rose is pale, the lily's dead, But he that... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...merrily sung the livelong day. 7 ' 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? 8 ' And when you first to me made suit, How fair I was, you oft would say! And, proud of conquest,... | |
 | Girls - 1883 - 162 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, pluck' d the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. Yes ! now neglected and despised, The rose is pale,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Great Britain - 1883 - 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...to me made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! &.nd proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. 'Yes ! now neglected and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 392 pages
...all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Karl, it well was prizwl '. " 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. " Yes ! now neglected, and despised, The rose is... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1884 - 544 pages
...the livelong day. " If that my beauty is bnt email, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst tliou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Earl, it well...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... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...sung the live-long day. Say 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1886 - 908 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...prized! And when you first to me made suit, How fair 1 was you oft would say I And, proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay.... | |
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