 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 394 pages
...ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized J " 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1896 - 510 pages
...it from that hall, Where, scornful earl, it well was prized ? ' And when yon first to me made snit, How fair I was you oft would say ! And, proud of conquest,...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 Eyre-Todd - 1896 - 256 pages
...didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful earl, it well was prized? "And when you to me first 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,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 554 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 is... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1898 - 936 pages
...earl. It well was prized T " And when you first to me made suit, How fair I was you oft would say 1 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 : Bnt he that once their charms so prized, Is sure the... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1900 - 482 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... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1901 - 350 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 ! " 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 544 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 is pale,... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1904 - 1196 pages
...ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized f " And when you first to me made suit, How fair I was you oft would say ; And, proud of conquest, plucked the fruit And left the blossom to decay. " Tes, now neglected and despised, The rose is pale,... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 610 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... | |
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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... 
