 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...no more Л begging to a beggar's door. [Ida Canfas JVtou'rt Smooth and Fair.] 1 do confess thou'rt t know art, and use judgment, is no transgression, but an enri 1 not found the slightest prayer That lips could speak had power to move thee : But I can let thee... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 442 pages
...love, and appointed them the guardian angels of mortals. INCONSTANCY REPROVED. I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love...thee : But I can let thee now alone As worthy to be loved by none. > I do confess thee sweet, yet find Thou'rt such an unthrift of thy sweets, Thy favors... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...no more A begging to a beggar's door. [/ do Confess Thou'rl Smooth and Pair.'] I do confess thou'rt tom more thee : But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. I do confess thou'rt sweet,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 650 pages
...ascribed to Sir Robert Ayrton. Can any of your readers furnish any account of him ? " I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love...thee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips can speak had power to more thee ; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. " I... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1852 - 782 pages
...ascribed to Sir Robert Ayrton. Can any of your readers furnish any account of him? " I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love...thee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips can speak had power to move thee ; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. " I... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. ANONYMOUS. FROM "SELECT AYRES AND DIALOGUES," BY LAWES. 1659. I no confess thou 'rt smooth and fair, And I might have...love thee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lip could move had power to move thce ; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...no more A begging to a beggar's door. [/ do Confess Thau'rt Smooth and Fair.] I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love thee ; Had I not found the slightest prayer That Upe could speak had power to move thee : But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none.... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 342 pages
...forgotten Robert Ayton : " I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love tliee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could...thee. But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. * The name is more properly spelt "Ayton." f See Burns' Song, beginning — " I do confess... | |
 | Richard Wright Procter - Poetry - 1855 - 490 pages
...SCOTTISH QUEENS, MARY AND ANNE. FROM "THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND, ANCIENT AND MODERN." I DO confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love...thee : But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. I do confess thou'rt sweet, yet find Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets, Thy favours... | |
 | Scotland - 1855 - 808 pages
...made them. They have been closely copied by Burns. "I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I miyht have gone near to love thee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could move, had power to more thee; But I can let thce now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. I do confess... | |
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T do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love thee. Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could speak, had power to move thee; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. 
