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 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...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...lily's dead; But he that once their charms so prized Is sure the cause those charms are fled. ' ' For know, when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love's... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 290 pages
...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 pale, the lily 's dead ; But he that once their charms so prized Is sure the cause those charms are fled. "For... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1877 - 482 pages
...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...lily's dead ; But he that once their charms so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. " For know, when sick'ning grief doth prey, And tender love... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 308 pages
...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...lily's dead; But he that once their charms so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. r " For know, when sick'ning grief doth prey, And tender love... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...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 pale, the lily *s dead; But he that once their charms so prized Is sure the cause those charms are fled. "For... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...neglected and despised, The rose is pale, the lily's dead ; But he that once their charms so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. " For know, when sick'ning grief doth prey, And tender love 's repaid with scorn, The sweetest beauty will decay, — What floweret can endure the storm?... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...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...lily's dead ; But he that once their charms so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. X. For know, when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love's... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...you first to me made suit, 1 low fair I was, you oft would say 1 And, proud of conquest, plucked the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. Yes ! now neglected...lily's dead ; But he that once their charms so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. For know, when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love's... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...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....dead— But he that once their charms so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. "For know, when sickening grief doth prey, And tender love... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...when you first to me made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And, proud of conquest, pluck'd the 4 sickening grief doth prey, And tender love's repaid with scorn, The sweetest beauty will decay, —... | |
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