| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...sweets of love are mixed with tears. Ask me why this Qower docs show So yellow-green, and sickly toot Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break f I will answer, These discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. Jranris (Duarlc0. Quirles (1593-1644),... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...whisper to your ears, The sweets of love are mixed with tears. Ask me why this flower does show So yellow green and sickly too ? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break ? 1 will answer, these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. THREE EPITAPHS. UPON A CHILD HEHE... | |
| Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...sweets of love are mixed with tears. Ask me why this flower does show So yellow-green, and sickly too Î nded National Work by William and Robert Whistlecraft, of Stowm î I will answer, These discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. .francis duarUs. Quarles (1593-1644),... | |
| William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 pages
...whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are washed with tears. Ask me why this flower does show So yellow, green, and sickly too ? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break ? I will answer—there discover What fainting hopes are in a lover." John Clare, the peasant poet, m speaking... | |
| 1884 - 418 pages
...whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are washed with tears. Ask me why this flower doth show, So yellow, green and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk...these discover, What doubts and fears are in a lover." And Clare sings of his "Village Minstrel:" " And while he plucked the primrose in its pride, He pondered... | |
| Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are washed with tears. Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk...these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. Thomas Carew, 1580-1639. DISDAIN. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from starlike... | |
| Language - 1884 - 108 pages
...whisper in your ear^, The sweets of love are washed with ttars. Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak And hending, yet it doth not hreak ; I must tell you, these discover What douhts and fears are in a lover.... | |
| English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears : Ask me why this flow'r doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too; Ask me why the stalk...break; I must tell you, these discover What doubts and fevers are in a lover. THE PROTESTATION. No more shall the meads be deck'd with flowers, Nor sweetness... | |
| Ada Ellen Bayly - 1885 - 348 pages
...whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are washed with tears. Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk...it doth not break ; I must tell you these discover AVhat doubts and fears are in a lover." ' ' 'Tis beautiful ; but what have you to do with doubts and... | |
| Edna Lyall - English fiction - 1886 - 446 pages
...wiih tears. Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the Mall; ie weak And bending, yet it doth not break ; I must tell you the?e discover Whftt doubts and fears are in n lover.' " " Tis beautiful ; but what have you to do... | |
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