 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...When Philomel her voice shall raise? So when my mistress shall be seen, In sweetness of her looks and mind; By virtue first, then choice a queen, Tell me if she was not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind? This song is supposed to have been inspired by... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In sweetness of her looks and mind, By vertu* first, then choice a queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring -were all your own; What are you when the rose is blown ? So when my mistress...choice a Queen, Tell me, if she were not designed The "eclipse and glory of her kind ?" ENGLISH AND FRENCH SUICIDES. There is an absurd and ancient accusation... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ! What are you, when the rose is blown ! So, when my...first, then choice, a Queen ! Tell me, if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind J A Famccli to the Vanilla of the World. Farewell, ye gilded... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1855 - 512 pages
...were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen, Inform and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice a queen ; Tell me if she were not design'd The eclipse and glory of her kind. * * Reliquiae Wottonianae, p. 379. There are other versions... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1855 - 516 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen, Inform and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice a queen ; Tell me if she were not design'd... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1856 - 386 pages
...the rose is blown ? IV. So, when my mujtress shall be seen, In sweetness of her looks and mind, Ity virtue first, then choice a queen— Tell me if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind?" " Charming, charming! Thank you a thousand times. Now... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? So when my mistress...first, then choice a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd The eclipse and glory of her kind ? " , sisted upon ; as, namely, his procurations of privileges... | |
 | Mary Anne Everett Green - Princesses - 1857 - 656 pages
...virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you, when the rose is blown f " So when my mistress shall be seen, In form and beauty...first, then choice, a queen, Tell me, if she were not design 'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ! " Poems of Wotlm and Raleigh, edited by Rev. J. Hannah,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...When Philomel her voice shall raise ? So when my mistress shall be seen, In sweetness of her looks and mind, By virtue first, then choice a queen, Tell me if she was not design' d Th' eclipse and glory of her kind. This son;r is supposed to have been Inspired by... | |
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... the wood, That warble forth Dame Nature's lays, Thinking your passions understood By your weak accents; what's your praise, When Philomel her voice shall raise? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins... 
