 If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf. If I were what the words are, And love were like the tune, With double sound and single Delight our lips would mingle, With kisses glad as birds are That get sweet rain at noon ; If I were what...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 1491903Full view - About this book
 | London Mayfair - 1874 - 468 pages
...together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pleasure or grey grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf. If I were what the words are, And love were like the tune, With double sound and single Delight our... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...— and clear and high The quarter sounded from the steeple. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. A MATCH. IK love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf,...together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or nowerfnl closes, Green pleasure or gray grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or tlowerful closes. Green pleasure or gray grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf. If I were what the words are, And love were like the tune, With double sound and single Delight our... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1875 - 472 pages
...together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pleasure or gray grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf." Unwholesome and fantastic extravagance, for which we are compensated by novel and beautiful effects... | |
 | Fannie N. Smith - 1875 - 470 pages
...things I wouldn't for any one livin'. An' — an' now it's all up ! " Poor Amos choked down a sob. " ' If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf,' " quoted Peace, who rather enjoyed such complications. " The trouble is, that Amos don't know the difference... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1876 - 504 pages
...faults, what wrinkle can any Sybarite find in such a rose-leaf as the lyric called " A Match " : — " If love were what the rose is, And I were like the...together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowcrful closes, Green pleasure or gray grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pleasure or gray grief ; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf. If I were what the words are, And love were like the tune, With double sound and single Delight our... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or fiowerful closes, Green pleasure or gray grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf. If I were what the words are,' And love were like the tune, With double sound and single Delight our... | |
 | Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 280 pages
...when fear takes flight, Shall leap against my side. Dante Gabriel Rossttti. CLXXXIX. A LOVE MATCH. IF love were what the rose is, And I were like the...would grow together In sad or singing weather, Blown field or flowerful closes, Green pleasures or grey grief ; If love were what the rose is. And I were... | |
 | Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1878 - 694 pages
...of tho original. It will be observed that tho metre is a difficult one, and new in Englieh. A MATCH. If love were what the rose is. And I were like the leaf. Our lives would grow together In end or Ringing weather, Blown fields or flowi-rful closes, <irci>n pleasure or grey grief; ¡f love... | |
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