 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired....The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Apis aurea otiatur : sed... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retir'd : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir'd, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she...The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! TO PHILLI9. PHILLIS, why... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retir'd : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir"d, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare Way read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! TO PHILLI9.... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...the light retir'd : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir'd, And not blush so to be admir'd. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair t To Phillis. PHILLIS, why... | |
 | G. W. Fitzwilliam - English poetry - 1806 - 216 pages
...uncommended died. Small is the worth Of Beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired....The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! TO CASTARA. BY HABINGTON.... | |
 | Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...the light retir'd : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir'd, And not blush so to be adinirM. Then, die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read, in thee : How small a part of time they share. That are so wondrous sweet, and fair! WILLIAM HABINGTON. 1635.... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...the light retir'd : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desirM, And not blush so to be admir'd : Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair ! MRS. KNIGHT, TO HER MAJESTY,... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...grand jour ; fais-la sortir ; qu'elle permette -qu'on la desire, et ne rougisse pas d'être admirée. Then die , that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they sliare , That are so wond'rous sweet and fair. * WALL». THE SEAMEN.... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...knows, • When I resemble her to t^iee, How sweet and fair she seems to be, &c. It concludes thus, Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee: How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair. The old Provencals availed... | |
 | Epigrams, Greek - 1806 - 312 pages
...is Waller's beautiful Address to the Rose, which concludes (like the Grecian Poem) Then die ! (hat she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share That are so wond'rous sweet and fair. Venus, in »n ancient gem,... | |
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When I resemble her to thee. How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied. That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light... 
