 | 1797 - 614 pages
...rise ? " You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth Dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices 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, i Like the proud "virgins... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...year, As if the spring were all your own, What aie you, when the rose is blown ! Ye curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame nature's lays,...shall be seen In sweetness of her looks, and mind ; STANZAS. [From the Reliquise Wottoniana, 1<J73.] HEAHT-TEARIXG cares, and quivering fears, Anxious... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 468 pages
...rise ? You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices 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... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? Ye curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame nature's lays,...what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise ? Se, when my mistress shall be seen In sweetness of her looks, and mind ; By virtues first, then choice,... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 pages
...light, You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise ? 2 Ye curious chaunters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays,...accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice shall raise ? 3 Ye violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 472 pages
...rise ? You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices 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... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1822 - 430 pages
...rise ? " You curious chanters of the wood That warble forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood By your weak accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice shall raise? • Walton's Lives, vol. ii. p. 237, Zouch's edit. " You -- You violets that first appear,... | |
 | 1824 - 80 pages
...you when the rose is blown ? Ye curious chaunters of the wood, That warble forth Dame Nature's layes, Thinking your passions understood ( By your weak accents ; what's your praise, When Philomel her voice shall raise ? So when my mistress shall be seen, In sweetness of her looks and minde : By virtue first,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...? " You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, . Thinking your voices 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... | |
 | 1835 - 378 pages
...? Ye curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's layes, Thinking1 your passion's understood By your weak accents ; what's your praise, When Philomel her voice shall raise ? * " Sun" is the reading in the ReliquiEe Wottonianse. The alteration I believe is Percy's,... | |
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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; What are you when the rose is blown? 
