 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
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1859 - 728 pages
...in every shepherd's touag, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers...of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton field To wayward winter reckoning yield : A honey tongue, a heart of gau, Is fancie's spring, but sorrow's... | |
 | Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - England - 1859 - 210 pages
...shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move, To live with thee and be thy love. Angling. 8 1 But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage and rocks grow cold ; Then Philomel becometh dumb, And age complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1860 - 402 pages
...the sixth stanza, which was not printed in the first edition of the Angler. See note ante. But Timer drives flocks from field to fold ; When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold; Then » Philomel becometh dumb ; And age* complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1861 - 402 pages
...in every shepherd's toung, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love ; But time drives flocks from field to fold, . When...of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton field, If wayward winter reckoning yield ; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, In fancies spring, but... | |
 | Elizabethan age - English poetry - 1862 - 83 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...shepherd's tongue, These 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 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1863 - 372 pages
...every shepherd's tongne, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. Bnt Time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage and rocks grow cold ; Then Philomel becometh dumb, And age complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 362 pages
...shepherd's tongue, These 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 rocks grow cold ; " To " The Passionate Shepherd lo his Love," by Christopher MrtrKm. _*• And Philomel becometh dumb,... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 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 ; ' To " The Passionate Shepherd to his Love," by Christopher Marlow. 'IF ALL THE WOKLD AND LO\ K WERE... | |
 | English poetry - 1864 - 398 pages
...pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, 6 When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, And Philomel...to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To way ward winter reckoning yields : 10 A honey tongue, a heart of gall, In fancies spring, but sorrows... | |
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