 To his Lute MY lute, be as thou wast when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some shady grove, When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds on thee their ramage did bestow.  The Dial - Page 1671914Full view - About this book
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1790 - 346 pages
...death. TO HIS LUTE. MY lute, be as thou waft, when thou didft grow With thy green mother in fome fhady grove, When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds on thee their ramage did beftow. Sith that dear voice which did thy founds approve, Which ufed in fuch harmonious ftrains to... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...as thou wilt, and what thou wilt bequeath, I long to kiss the image of my death. SONNET TO HIS LUTE. MY lute, be as thou wast, when thou didst grow With...that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which us'd in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...long to kiss the image of my death. SONNET. [To his lute.} Mr lute, be as thou wert, a when thou did 3 grow With thy green mother in some shady grove, When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee * bestow. Since 5 that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont6... | |
 | Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...appears, To salt your streams, take of mine eyes these tears { MY Lute! be as thou wert, when thou did grow With thy green mother in some shady grove; When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow. Since that dear Voice, which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...given him over, From death to life thou ruight'st him yet recover. Dray ton, Son. 6l. TO HIS LUTE. JVlY Lute, be as thou wast, when thou didst grow With thy...thee move, And birds on thee their ramage did bestow. SUh that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which used in such harmonious strains to flow, Is... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...whom those once to me were dear, Can have no part of them now with me here ? "My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some...When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow. Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...Virtue, seasons go and come, While thine forgot lie closed in a tomb. DRUMMOND. MY lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some...When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow. Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...Neglected Virtue, seasons go and come, While thine forgot lie closed in a tomb. MY lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some...When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow. Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...Virtue, seasons go and come, While thine forgot lie closed in a tomb. DRUMMOND. MY lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some...When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow. Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...whom those once to me were dear, Can have no part of them now with me here? " My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some...When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow. Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in... | |
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