 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.  Kenilworth - Page viiiby Walter Scott - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2001 - 366 pages
...when you first to me made suit, How fair 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, the lily 's dead ; But he that once their charms so prized, Is sure the cause those charms are fled. '... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 446 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. "... | |
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