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" Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth... "
Essays for Summer Hours - Page 20
by Charles Lanman - 1842 - 250 pages
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Visits of mercy; being the journal (second journal)of the stated ..., Volume 1

Ezra Stiles Ely - 1813 - 278 pages
...speak to me. Of this person Burns might have sung, in his tenderest strains, to the "mountain daisy;" " Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, In guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all spoil'.1. is laid Low i' the dust." When the...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Whitehead, 1785, to Anstey, 1805

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 38

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet flo-w'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'H, : And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is...
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The British Essayists: The Lounger

English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...Tliou lifts thy unassuming head, In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By Love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low in the dust. On life's...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 31-32

British essayists - 1823 - 802 pages
...lifts thy unassuming head, In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade, By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust ! Such is the...
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Visits of Mercy; Or The Journals of the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely, D.D.: Written ...

Ezra Stiles Ely - Institutional missions - 1829 - 292 pages
...might have sung, in his tenderest strains, to the " mountain daisy;" • See pages 61, 63, and 70. " Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! • By love's simplicity betray'd, . <'_ . In guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all spoil'd, is laid Low i' the dust." When...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the...
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Gathered Flowers: Chiefly from the Works of the British Poets

1832 - 206 pages
...the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! 57 Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade, By love's simplicity betrayed,...trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled is laid Low i' the dust Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred ! Unskilful he...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life, Volume 2

Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 370 pages
...lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, 'Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the...
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Flora and Thalia; or, Gems of flowers and poetry, by a lady

Flora (goddess.) - 1835 - 314 pages
...lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share up-tears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust ; Till she, like thee, all soil'd is laid Low T the dust. Such is the...
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