 Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide,...  A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Page 524by Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 715 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...to confess • , . that your great self did ne'er endite, nor that, to one more noble, write. SONG. Go, lovely Rose ! tell her that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, how sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, and shuns to have her graces spy'd, that hadst thou sprung in deserts, where... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...banish'd servant trouble you ; For if I break, you may mistrust The vow I made — to love vou too. SONG. Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and...her to thee, How sweet, and fair, she seems to be. Tell her that's young. And shuns to have her graces spy'd, That hadst thou sprung [n deserts, where... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...forced to confess • , that your great self did ne'er endite, nor that, to one more noble, write. SONG. Go, lovely Rose ! tell her that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, how sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, and shuns to have her graces spy'd, that hadst thou sprung in deserts, where... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 336 pages
...them to her, she discovered an additional Stanza written by him at the bottom of the Song here copied. Go, lovely rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thoii sprung In deserts, where... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...bliss must gain : The heart can ne'er a transport know, Thai never feels a pain. § 2. Song. WALLER. Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time, and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tefl her that's young, _ And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...no more ; we now take leave of this beauty, in the following lines of Waller :— Go, lovely RUSE, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung Jn desarts, where... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Like Pho-'bus thus, acquiring unsought praise, He catch'd at love, and 611'd his arms with bays. SONG. Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, How sweet, and fair, she seems to lie. Tell her that's young, And shuns to ha%re her graces spy'd, That hadst thou sprung In deserts,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...Like Phoebus thus, acquiring unsought praise, He catch'd at love, and fill'd his arms with bays. SONG. Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and...her to thee, How sweet, and fair, she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spy'd, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 450 pages
...with the above stanza. — It needs to be once read only, to be for ever fixed in all poetic memories. Go lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time, and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be! Tell her that's yonng, And shuns to have her graces spy'd, That had.«t thon sprung In deserts, where... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloom'd with its owner a while ;— *. GO, LOVELY ROSE. A Song. Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time, and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be ' Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That, had'st thou sprung In deserts, where... | |
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