 A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,...  The English Poets: Selections - Page 490edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1847 - 606 pages
...tongue, a heart of gall, It fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds ofrotes, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon...folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy-buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roeea, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, noon still to the good and benefit of nature ; but fet,...praying in aid of alchymists, there is a manifest image these in me no means can moro To come to thee and be thy lore. But could youth last, and love still... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...— a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of rosee, rom Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage...mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread ami amber studs ; All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love. 84 FBOM 1558 EDMUND... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 484 pages
...wayward winter reckoning yields ; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's full. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap,...and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thcc, and bo thy love. But could youth last, and love still... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...heart of gall, In faney's spring, bnt sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy eap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither,...soon forgotten ; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. 1 Parts of the seeond and third stanzas of this song are qnoted in the Merry Wives of Windsor, Aet... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue — a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap,...folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and fvy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs; All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 pages
...wayward winter reckoning yields ; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap,...folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy-buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1851 - 502 pages
...wayward winter reckoning yields, A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap,...folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw, and ivy-buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 458 pages
...Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kittle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,...and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and bo thy love. But could youth last, and love still... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 446 pages
...Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy Hrtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,...and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps, and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love. But could youth last, and love still... | |
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