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" The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee her honey now she mings; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays; and yet my sorrow springs. "
Wyclif, Chaucer, earliest drama, renaissance, tr. by W. C. Robinson - Page 250
by Bernhard ten Brink - 1896
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 2

English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee, her honey now she mings ; Winter is worne, that was the flower's bale : And thus I see, among these pleasant things, Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs ! LORD VAUX. This poet (says Mr. Warton) was probably Thomas Lord Vaux, son of Lord Nicholas. He was...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...away she flings ; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale, The busy bee her honey now she mynges ; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale ; And thus...things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. EARL OF SURREY. VERSES, BY QUEEN ELIZABETH. JL GRIEVE, and dare not show my discontent, I love, and...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 238 pages
...flies smale, The busy bee her honey now she mynges ; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale; Aud thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. EARL OF SURREY. VERSES, BY QUEEN ELIZABETH. J. GRIEVE, and dare not show my discontent, I love, and...
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The Augustan review, Volume 3

1816 - 676 pages
...winter-coat he flings, The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale, The busy bee her honey now she niings ; Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale. And thus...things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs /" p. 19. The verses on his imprisonment in Windsor Cattle, and Ilk recollections of his friend RICHMOND,...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

Books - 1817 - 576 pages
...flies smale ; The busy bee her honey now she mings ; \ Winter is worn that was the flower's bale. 5 And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs !' The editor thinks that he discovers that the general idea of the foregoing is borrowed from Petrarch,...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...flies small ; . The busy bee her honey now she mings3; Winter is worn that was the flower's bale4. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. A PRISONER IN WINDSOR CASTLE, HE REFLECTS ON PAST HAPPINESS. So cruel prison how could betide, alas...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection from the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...pursueth the flies smalle ; The busy bee her honey how she minges ! Winter is worne that was the floures bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays ; and yet my sorrow springs. EARL OF SURREY. NEW yeare, forth looking out of Ianus gate, Doth seeme to promise hope of new delight...
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New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent British ..., Volume 3

New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...pursueth the flies smalle ; The busy bee her honey how she minges ! Winter is worne that was the floures bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays ; and yet my sorrow springs. _____ EARL OF SURREY. NEW yeare, forth looking out of lanus gate, Doth seeme to promise hope of new...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection from the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...pursueth the flies smalle ; The busy bee her honey how she minges ! Winter is worne that was the floures bale. And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays ; and yet my sorrow springs. EARL OF SURREY. NEW yeare, forth looking out of lanus gate, Doth seeme to promise hope of new delight;...
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Historical and literary tour of a foriegner in England and Scotland [from ...

Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 450 pages
...hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale ; The adder all her slough...things, Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs !" An elegy by Surrey, on the miseries of absence, is written in a style so pure, that it would not...
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