 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1908 - 398 pages
...ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful Earl, it well was prized I " 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,... | |
 | Recitations - 1909 - 636 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 And left the blossom to decay. " Yes, now neglected and despised, The rose is pale,... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1923 - 716 pages
...ladies all despised, xv 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...Then left the blossom to decay. 'Yes! now neglected andfdespised, The rose is pale, the lily's dead; But he that once their charms so prized, Is sure the... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 446 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... | |
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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... 
