 O how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong! Whose yielded pride and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great compassion, And drizling teares did shed for pure affection....  Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628 - Page 177edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...can beautie maister the most strong, I And simple truth subdue avenging wrong ! Whose yielded pryde and proud submission, -^, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great compassion ; And drizling teares did shed for pure affection. " The lyon, lord... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 420 pages
...sight amazd, forgat his furious forse. And simple truth subdue avenging wrong! Whose yielded pryde and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great eompassion ; And drizling teares did shed for pure affeetion. " The lyon, lord... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong ! Whose yielded pryde and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great compassion ; And drizling teares did shed for pure affection. VII. " The lyon,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...weary feet, And licked her lily hands with fawning tongue, As he her wronged innocence did weet , Oh, how can beauty master the most strong, And simple...proud submission. Still dreading death, when she had marke.l long. Her heart 'gan melt in great compassion. And drizzling tears did shed for pure affection.... | |
 | Sea-wolf - 1834 - 344 pages
...reading old Spenser, and his witcheries;" and then, looking up archly at her lover, she said, " O ! how can beauty master the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong !" " But if you must know, I was watching, as you spoke, the solitary flight of a sea-bird, that seemed... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 444 pages
...beautie maister the most strong, • And simple truth subdue avenging wrong ! r Whose yielded pryde and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great compassion ; And drizling teares did shed for pure affection. VII. " The lyon,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...weary feet, And lick'd her lily hands with fawning tongue ; As he her wronged innocence did weet. 0 , a Queen ! Tell me, if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of wron? ! Whose yielded pride and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked Ion»,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...weary feet, And lick'd her lily hand with fawning tongue ; As he her wronged innocence did weet. O how can beauty master the most strong, And simple...for pure affection. " The lion, lord of every beast infield," Quoth she, " his princely puissance doth abate. And mighty proud to humble weak does yield,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...weary feet, And lick'd her lily hand with fawning tongue ; As he her wronged innocence did weet. O how can beauty master the most strong, And simple...compassion: And drizzling tears did shed for pure affection. Forgetful of the hungry rage, which late Him prick'd with pity of my sad estate — , But he my lion,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...her weary feet, And lick'd her lily hand with fawning tongue; As he her wronged innocence did weet. O how can beauty master the most strong, And simple...: And drizzling tears did shed for pure affection. But he my lion, and my noble lord, How does he find in cruel heart to hate Her, that him lov'd, and... | |
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