 The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To 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, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither —...  Beauties of the Scottish poets, or Harp of Renfrewshire, a collection of ... - Page 416by Renfrew county - 1821Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1775 - 290 pages
...fhepherd's tongue ; Thefe pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When rivers, rage, and...fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yield : A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's fpring, but forrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy fhoes,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - Fishing - 1775 - 620 pages
...in every Jhepberd's tongue, Tbefe pretty pleafures might me move To live with tbee, and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold? Then Philomel becometh dumb, And age complains of care to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1782 - 348 pages
...every fhepherd's tongue, , Thefe pretty pleafures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers...becometh dumb, And all complain of cares to come. The flow'rs do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reck'ning yields; A honey tongue, and heart of... | |
 | Goldfinch - 1782 - 318 pages
...every (hepherd's tongue, Thefe pretty pleafures might me move, To live with thee, and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, And Philomel becometh dulnb, And all complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1783 - 366 pages
...fhepherds tongue, Thefe pretty pleafures might me move, To live with thee, and be thy love. Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, And Philomel becometh dumb ; The reft complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reck'ning... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1790 - 346 pages
...in every fhepherd's tongue, Thefe pretty pleafures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers...The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter's reckoning yield; A honey tongue—a heart of gall, Is fancy's fpring, but forrow's fall. Thy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 606 pages
...every (hepherd's tongue, " Thefe pretty pleafures might me move " To live with thee, and be thy love. " But time drives flocks from field to fold, " When...fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yield* . A honey tongue, a bean of gall, Is fancy's fprmg, but forrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy (hoes,... | |
 | Beauties - Anthologies - 1794 - 228 pages
...in every (hephcrd's toung, Thefe pretty pleafures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers...becometh dumb, And all complain of cares to come. £ a The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yield: A honey tongue, a heart... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1794 - 508 pages
...be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fo'd, 5 When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, And And Philomel becometh dumb, And all complain of cares...fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yield : A lioney tongue, a heart of gall, In fancies fpring, but forrows fall. Thy gowns, thy (hoes,... | |
 | Beauties - Anthologies - 1794 - 236 pages
...in every fhepherd's toung, Thefe pretty pleafures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold,. When rivers...rocks grow cold. And Philomel becometh dumb, And all complam of cares to come, The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To way ward winter reckoning yield:... | |
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