 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
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field u fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, And Philomel...all complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, the wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yield A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is Fancy's spring,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1819 - 426 pages
...every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures 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, Then PAi'Zoine/becometh dumb, And age complains of care to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton field?... | |
 | Scotland - 1823 - 858 pages
...in ev'ry Shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures 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, Then Philomel becometh dumb, And age complains of care to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields... | |
 | England - 1823 - 772 pages
...in ev'ry Shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures 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, Then Philomel becometh dumb, And age complains of care to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 512 pages
...every Shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures 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, Then Philomel becometh dumb, And age complains of care to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures 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 spring, but sorrow's fall.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 792 pages
...the shepe that rouketh in the to fold. Chaucer. The Knightei Tale. Time drives the flocks from field fold, When rivers rage and rocks grow cold ; And Philomel...becometh dumb, And all complain of cares to come. Raleigh. We sen that the folding of sheep helps ground, .is well by their warmth as by their compost.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 816 pages
...PHIL'OMEL, ns > From Philomela. PHILOME'LA. \ Changed into a bird. The nightingale. Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, And philomel becometh dumb. Shakspeare. Admires the jay the insects gilded wings, Or hears the hawk, when philomelu sings ? Pope.... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - Great Britain - 1829 - 810 pages
...shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move, To live with thee, and be thy lore. Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold; And Philomel becometh dumb ; The rest complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pages
...shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move, To live with thee, and he thy love. Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold; And Philomel hecometh dumb ; The rest complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward... | |
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