 When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and...  Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628 - Page 283edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 838 pages
...wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, is soul so to his own* conceit, That, from her working,...visage wann'd :f Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's by f verse distils your truth. IiY. Not marble, not the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, d make it halt behind her ! FEB. I do believe it,...Then, as my gift,* and thine own acquisition (*) Old by ' verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, not the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show, They lived unwooed, and unrespected fade ,• Die to themselves. Sweet...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth." Besides these objections; which are equally applicable to the sonnets... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, ]"5 1860"- Sh пш!е ; And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by ' verse distils your... | |
 | William Allen - Christian poetry, American - 1860 - 110 pages
...wantonly, "When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : Bat for th«ir virtue only is their show ; They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves....roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth ; When that shall fade, my verse distils your... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1905 - 872 pages
...rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. . . . Canker roses Die to themselves, sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. — Sonnet 54. I am sure George Herbert was thinking of roses when he said : Farewell, dear flowers,... | |
 | Samuel Bowne Parsons - Flowers in literature - 1860 - 334 pages
...masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and uninspected fade; Die to themselves. Sweet Roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made: And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...masked buds discl.ise^. Hut, for their virtue', they have naught but show' ; ' They live unmoved', and unrespected fade* — Die to themselves* : sweet...roses' do not so* ; Of their sweet deaths' are sweetest odors made." rooms are constantly ornamented with them, and mattresses are made of their leaves for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 546 pages
...plentiful season, the autumn, 'anker-rose, or dog-rose. But, for* their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves....When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments • Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But you... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 364 pages
...wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves....beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, not the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this... | |
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