 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 280 pages
...lips we will permit For to tell, not publish it. LXX. TO VIOLETS. WELCOME, tnaids of honour, You do bring In the spring, And wait upon her. She has virgins many, Fresh and fair ; Yet you are More sweet than any. Ye are maiden posies, And so grac'd, To be plac'd... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 pages
...thee all ; And thou a thousand thousand times shalt be More shak't thy selfe, then she is scorch't by thee. TO VIOLETS. WELCOME, maids of honour, You...spring ; And wait upon her. She has virgins many, Fresh and faire ; Yet you are More sweet then any. Y'are the Maiden Posies, And so grac't, To be plac't,... | |
 | Robert Herrick - Elegiac poetry, English - 1825 - 334 pages
...thee all ; And thou a thousand thousand times shalt be More shak't thy selfe, then she is scorch't by thee. TO VIOLETS. WELCOME, maids of honour, You...spring ; And wait upon her. She has virgins many, Fresh and faire ; Yet you are More sweet then any. Y'are the Maiden Posies, And so grac't, To be plac't,... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - Floriculture - 1825 - 516 pages
...Sought the best shelter it could find, 'Neath long grass banks." " Welcome, maids of honour, You do bring In the spring, And wait upon her. " She has virgins many, Fresh and fair ; Yet you are More sweet than any. " Yet, though thus respected, By and bye Ye do lie,... | |
 | Asia - 1826 - 842 pages
...lukewarm at best. (The remainder next month.) TO , ON RECEIVING SOME VIOLETS, THE FIRST OF THE SEASON. Welcome, maids of honour — You doe bring In the Spring, And wait upon her. Hcrrick. O, in these sweetly-scented bells, What a dear charm, what magic dwells ! So sweetly-scented... | |
 | O. Greene - 1831 - 118 pages
...To waft a last farewell from Bawburgh Hall. TO , ON BEOEIVINO SOME VIOLETS, THK PIBST OF THE SEASON. Welcome, maids of honour— You doe bring In the Spring, And wait upon her. Herriek. O, in these sweetly-scented bells, What a dear charm, what magic dwells ! O, to me the little... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...lyre of Herrick. We find him, in the following lines, allowing the Violet precedence of the rose : — Welcome, maids of honour, You doe bring In the Spring; And wait upon her. She has virgins many, Fresh and feire ; 70 Y'are the maiden posies, And so grac't, To be plac't 'Fore damask roses. Yet,... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...lyre of Herrick. We find him, in the following lines, allowing the Violet precedence of the rose: — Welcome, maids of honour, You doe bring In the Spring ; And wait upon her. 72 She has virgins many, Freshe and faire ; Yet you are More sweet than any. Y'art! the maiden posies,... | |
 | American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...poets who have honored the violet in their song, we admire Herrick in the following simple lines : Welcome, maids of honour ; You doe bring In the Spring, And wait upon her. * Ovid. Met. 1, v. 748.— Virg. JEn. Book 7, v. 780. She has virgins many, Frcshe and faire ; Yet... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1846 - 330 pages
...if not deftroy thee all. And thou a thoufand thoufand times fhalt be More mak't thy felfe, then me is fcorch't by thee. To Violets. WElcome, Maids of...Maiden Pofies, And fo grac't, To be plac't, 'Fore Datnafk Rofes. Yet though thus refpe&ed, By and by Ye doe lie, Poore Girles, neglefted. Upon Bunce.... | |
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TO VIOLETS WELCOME, maids of honour, You do bring In the Spring ; And wait upon her. She has virgins many, Fresh and fair ; Yet you are More sweet than any. 
