 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 698 pages
...all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hail, Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized V •' And when you first to me made suit, How fair I was you oft would say I And proud of conquest, pluck'd the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. " Yes ! now neglected and... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized ? •' And when you first to me made suit, How fair I was,...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... | |
 | David Mallet, Frederick Dinsdale - Ballads - 1857 - 440 pages
...GHOST., Evans' Old Ballads, 1784, vol. ii. p. 226. — It consists of 19 verses of 4 lines each. " And when you first to me made suit, How fair I was...pluck'd the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. * * * * Why didst thou praise my humble charms, And, oh ! then leave them to decay ? Why didst thou... | |
 | David Mallet, Frederick Dinsdale - Ballads - 1857 - 404 pages
...MARGARET'S GHOST. Evans' Old Ballads, 1784, vol.ii. p.226.— It consists of 19 verses of 4 lines each. " And 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. * * * * Why didst thou praise my humble charms,... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized ? 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 pale,... | |
 | J. C. - Ballads, English - 1860 - 218 pages
...all despised— Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, seornful Earl, it well was prized ? " And when you first to me made suit, How fair I was,...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... | |
 | J. C. - Ballads, English - 1860 - 196 pages
...all despised— Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized r " And when you first to me made suit, How fair I was,...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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...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, plucked the fruit, Then left the blossom to decay. 9 'Yes! now neglected and despised, The rose is... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1863 - 302 pages
...court-ladies all despised— Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful earl, it well was prized ? "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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 356 pages
...despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized? " And when yon first to me made suit, How fair I was, you oft would...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... | |
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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 hall, Where, scornful Earl, it well... 
