 | American essays - 1879 - 978 pages
...virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? " ?o when my mistress shall be seen, In form and beauty...her mind, By virtue first, then choice a queen, Tell mo if she were not designed To eclipse the glory of her kind ! " I Icaak Walton, in his quaint memoir... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...When Philomel her voice doth 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 were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind? Sir a. Wottcn. THE ROSES IN CASTARA'S BOSOM. II, THE ROSES... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 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...choice, a Queen, Tell me if she were not designed The eclipse and glory of her kind ? UPON THE DEATH OF SIR ALBERTUS MORTON'S WIFE. He first deceased... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 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...choice, a Queen, Tell me if she were not designed The eclipse and glory of her kind ? UPON THE DEATH OF SIR ALBERTUS MORTON'S WIFE. He first deceased... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, — of the young, the lazy, The coward and the fool, condemned to lose An useless — Tc-11 me, if she \vere not designed The eclipse and glory of her kind? SIR HEXRY WOTTOX CONSTANCY.... | |
 | Herbert Kynaston - 1880 - 216 pages
...when Philomel her voice doth raise? So when my Mistress shall be seen in sweetness of her looks and mind, by virtue first, then choice, a Queen, — tell...were not designed th' eclipse and glory of her kind? SIR H. WOTTON. XXXV. SIOERA, vile decus noctis, praestare tuentes miramur numero, luce juvare parum... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...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 designed Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? Another of those courtly minstrels was SIR JOHN... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 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...choice, a Queen, Tell me if she were not designed The eclipse and glory of her kind ? Died 1637] THOMAS HEY WOOD. SONG. Pack, clouds away, and welcome,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — ied, Or aught Thy goodness dcsign'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? SIR HENKY WOTTON. ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her slender... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...passions understood By your weak accents, — what's your praise, When Philomel her voice doth raise T is The eclipse and glory of her kind f THE HAPPY LIFE. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not... | |
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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... 
