| English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...fair maid, When by the sated lover tasted ; What first he did with tears invade, DISDAIN RETURNED. HE that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or...decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts, and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combin'd, Kindle never-dying... | |
| George Ellis - 1803 - 476 pages
...thy virgin springs grow dry, When no 'streams shall be left but in thine eye. Disdain returned. HE that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes dotli seek Fuel to maintain his fires,— As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away.... | |
| Charles Snart - 1808 - 506 pages
...Till fate decrees eternal rest, And all my sorrows are no more! Literary Magazine. AN OLD BALLAD. HE that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from tear-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old time makes these decay, So his flames must... | |
| John Aikin - 1810 - 330 pages
...so piercing bright, Each glancing beam would kill outright, And every swain subdue. XZE that lores a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like...his fires ; As old Time makes these decay, So his (lames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with... | |
| Samuel Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood - 1810 - 648 pages
...returned. " He that loves a rosie cheek, Or a coiall lip admires; Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuell to maintain his fires, As old time makes these decay,...flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast minde, Gentle thoughts and calme desires, Hearts with equall love combin'd, Kindle, never-dying fires;... | |
| George Ellis - 1811 - 474 pages
...all thy virgin springs grow dry, When no streams shall be left but in thine eye. Disdain returned. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or...decay, So his flames must waste away; But a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts, and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combin'd, Kindle never-dying... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1812 - 456 pages
...loves a rosie cheeke, Or a corall lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seeke % Fuell to maintaine his fires, As old time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. \ But a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts, and calme desires, Hearts with equal love combin'd, Kindle never-dying... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 444 pages
...Wise poets, that wrap truth in tales, Knew her themselves through all her veils. DISDAIN RETURNED. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or...makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. Hearts with equal love combin'd, Kindle never-dying fires. Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks,... | |
| John Struthers - 1821 - 434 pages
...And—thus when enfolded her frowns we defy. UNFADING BEAUTY. (CABEW, AD 1640.) HE that loves a rosie cheek, Fuel to maintain his fires: As old time makes these decay, So his love will waste away. But a smooth and stedfast mind, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes... | |
| John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...description of unlading beauty, by Thomas Carew, Esq. a gentleman who lived in the time of Charles L-- He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or...decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and stedfast mind. Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal lore combin'd, Kindle never-dying... | |
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