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
| Love poetry - 1841 - 178 pages
...Court the lone hour when silence stills the grove, And heave the sigh of Memory and of Love. 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 desarts where... | |
| English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...love-spent youth, and love-sick maid, Come to weep out the night. TlEnnrnr. THE ROSE. Go, lovely rose I 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 In deserts where... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...If it arrive but at the date Of fading beauty ; if it prove But as long-liv'd as present love. 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, hadst thou sprung In deserts where... | |
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...my soul like a dream of the night, And leave but a desert behind. THOMAS CAMFBELL. GO. LOVELY ROSE! Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and...resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men ubide, Thou must... | |
| Bits - Anthologies - 1847 - 88 pages
...a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.—Dryden. 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. And shuns to have her graces spied, Toll her, that's young, That, had'st thou sprung In deserts, where... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...most graceful poems of an age from which a taste for the highest poetry was fast vanishing : — " 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 hadst thou sprung In deserts, where... | |
| Garland - 1847 - 104 pages
...ineffable ! Come, then, expressive Silence, muse His praise. THOXSON. GO, LOVELY EOSE. Go, lovely Kose ! 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 In deserts where no... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...love, My heart is breaking, and my eyes arc dim, And I am all aweary of my life. TENNYSON. The Rose. 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, hadst thou sprung In deserts where... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...disproportion hide, And, death resembling, equals all. Go, Lovely JRox — a Song. Go, lovely rose 1 e on thee. Upon the Kindling of a C/iarcoal Fire....many creatures but do naturally affect to diffuse Tell her, that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That, had'st thou sprung In deserts, where... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...and sustain the preceding remarks, and to exhibit all the varieties of his style : GO, LOVELY ROSE. 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, hadst thou sprung In deserts, where... | |
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