To BLOSSOMS FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. Dwight's Journal of Music - Pagina 132geredigeerd door - 1853Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 pagina’s
...never failing source of the most pleasing reflections : Fair pledges of a fruitful treģi Why do you fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may...blush and gently smile ; And go at last. What were you born to be An hour or two's delight ; And so to bid good night ! •Twas pity Nature brought you... | |
| 1823 - 496 pagina’s
...and unbelief, say rather an uneasy and passionate hatred, of the things of the nobler being. E. TO BLOSSOMS. BY ROBERT HERRICK. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date M not so past, Bat you may stay yet here awhile, To blush und gently smile, And go at lost. What, were... | |
| 1818 - 596 pagina’s
...quiet, The pain without the peace of deatb. TO BLOSSOMS. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fail so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay...blush, and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half s deliirht, And MI to bid good night ? •Twas pity Nature .brought ye forth,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 440 pagina’s
...Thy silvery feet, My soul I'll pour into thee. TO BLOSSOMS. FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why dp ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past ; . But...blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night ? But you are lovely leaves, where we... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pagina’s
...worth, ' Conceiv'd with grief are, and with tears brought forth.' " To Blossoms. *>',•. .. ... i " Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so...blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be. An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good night? 'Tis pity nature brought ye forth... | |
| 1822 - 384 pagina’s
...greatest, so of meanest worth, ' Conceiv'd with grief are, and with tears brought forth.' " To Blossoms. " Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so...blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good night ? 'Tis pity nature brought ye forth... | |
| 1822 - 440 pagina’s
...neverfailing source of the most pleasing reflections :— Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do you fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may...blush and gently smile ; And go at last. What! were you born to be An hour or two's delight; And so to bid good night ? 'Twas pity Nature brought you forth... | |
| 1847 - 648 pagina’s
...which a few specimens are given below.] I. — TO BLOSSOMS. FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do you fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may yet here stay awhile To blush, and gently smile, And go at last. What! were ye born to be An hour or... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 pagina’s
...golden chaine, too, and the chick crown. TO BLOSSOMS. FAIRE pledges of a fruitfull tree, Why doe yee fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here a while, To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were yee borne to be An houre or half's delight,... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 412 pagina’s
...of the falling blossoms, " while I apostrophize them in some pretty lines of Herrick's. TO BLOSSOMS. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may stay here yet a while, To blush and gently smile ; And go at last. What were ye born to be. An hour or half's... | |
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