 Thinking your passions understood By your weak accents; what's your praise When Philomel her voice shall raise ? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ;...  Izaak Walton and His Friends - Page 242by Stapleton Martin - 1904 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1797 - 614 pages
...were all your own, What are you when the rose is blswn ? " So when my mistress shall be seen, Inform and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice a queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd . The eclipse and glory of her kind." Such extravaganzas were in the true spirit of the times.' A somewhat... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - 208 pages
...proud virgins of the year, As if the Spring were all your own ! What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my Mistress shall be seen In form, and beauty...choice, a Queen ! Tell me, if she were not design'd The' eclipse and glory of her kind} GEORGE WITTIER. 1622. George Wither was born June 11,1588, at Mayndowne... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 482 pages
...proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ! What are you, when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty...were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? A Description of the Country's Recreations. QUIVERING Fear, heart-tearing Cares, Anxious Sighs, untimely... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 472 pages
...proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ! What are you, when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind ; A Description of the Country's Recreations. QUIVERING Fear, heart-tearing Cares, Anxious Sighs, untimely... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 338 pages
...proud virgins of the year, As if the Spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty...were not design.d Th, eclipse and glory of her kind ? * The rise and fall of that favourite and minion of King James, Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, are... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 846 pages
...proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your owa I What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen, In form and beauty...first, then choice a Queen ! Tell me, if she were not designed Th' eclipse and glory of her kind? HW Let not our readers mistake this excellent little poem... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1822 - 434 pages
...proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? " So when my mistress shall be seen, In form, and beauty...were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind." While the charms of this royal lady were capable of inspiring her servants with verse like this, it... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 444 pages
...proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ! What are you when the rose is blown .' So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty...choice, a queen ! Tell me if she were not design'd The' eclipse and glory of her kind? SIR H. WOTTON. TO THE HONOURABLE MISS CARTERET. BLOOM of beauty,... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 404 pages
...proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own! What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty...choice, a queen! Tell me if she were not design'd The' eclipse and glory of her kind? TO THE SIR II. WOTTON. HONOURABLE MISS CARTERET. BLOOM of beauty,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1825 - 564 pages
...Philomel her voice doth ratief So, when my Princesse shall be seen. In sweetnesse of her lookes and mlnde. By Virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me if she were not design'd Tli' eclipse and glory of her kind] It would be of little interest to add here all the variations of... | |
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