 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...them, She kissed and wiped their dove-like eyes, And gave the bag between them. TO THE WILLOW THEE. Thou art to all lost love the best The only true plant...young men and maids, distrest And left of love, are crowned. When once the lover's rose is dead Or laid aside forlorn, Then willow garlands 'bout the head,... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...grief and sorrow down, But hath some memory of the past, To love and call its own. TO THE WILLOW-TREE. THOU art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distress'd And left of love, are crown'd. When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorne,... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 pages
...she's got her healthful hour, Each bending then, will rise a proper flow'r. CvIII. TO THE WILLOW TREE. Thou art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids dlstrest And left of love, are crown'd. When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorn,... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...Atticus were he ! POPE. [From the " Epistle tu Dr. Arbuthnot."} 7 S9S TO THE WILLOW TREE. Woto f m. THOU art to all lost love the best, The only true...young men and maids distrest, And left of love, are crowned. When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorn ; Then willow-garlands, 'bout the... | |
 | England - 1853 - 422 pages
...in her willows," implies the mourning of a female for her lost mate. Herrick says of this tree : " Thou art to all lost love the best, The only true...young men and maids distrest And left of love are crowned." The Weeping Willow (Salix Babylonica) was introduced into this country about a century ago.... | |
 | England - 1853 - 428 pages
...cultivated for basketwork. implies the mourning of a female for her lost mate. Herrick says of this tree : " Thou art to all lost love the best, The only true...young men and maids distrest And left of love are crowned." The Weeping Willow (Salix Babylonica) was introduced into this country about a century ago.... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1853 - 580 pages
..."To the Willow Tree," is in Herrick's Hesperides, p. 120 : — " Thou art to all lost love the test, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and...love, are crown'd. " When once the lover's rose is deaa, Or laid aside forlorne, Then willow-garlands 'bout the head, Bedew'd with tears, are worne. "... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1855 - 430 pages
...thus:— " Mie love ys dedde, Oon" to his deathe-bedde Al under the Wyllowe-tree." Herrick, too, saya of the Willow:— " Thou art to all lost love the...only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids, distreet And left of love, are crown'd. When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorn,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...dove-like eyes, And gave the bag between then. G TO THE WILLOW-TREE. Thou art to all lost love the beat The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids, distrest And left of love, are crowned. When once the lover's rose is dead Or laid aside forlorn, Then willow garlands 'bout the head,... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1856 - 380 pages
...and standing so, are both but one. TO THE WILLOW-TREE. THOU art to all lost love the best, The onely true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distrest,...When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorne, Then willow-garlands 'bout the head, Bedew'd with teares, are worne. When with neglect, the... | |
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THE WILLOW-TREE. THOU art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distres't, And left of love, are crown'd. When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorn : Then willow-garlands 'bout the head Bedew'd... 
