 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my...choice, a Queen, Tell me if she were not designed The eclipse and giory of her kind ? L. UPON THE DEATH OF SIR ALBERTUS MORTON'S WIFE * " He first deceased... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown f So when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty...were not designed Th' eclipse and glory of her kind 1 SIR HENRY WOTTON. <£he Cover to UK ©lonj-tOortns. YE living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale... | |
 | American poetry - 1882 - 578 pages
...weak accents, — what's your praise When Philomel her voice shall raise ? So when my mistress shajl be seen, In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a queen, Tell me if she was not design' d Th' eclipse and glory of her kind. SIB HENBY WOTTON. THOU HAST SWORN BY THY GOD,... | |
 | Oliver Bell Bunce - Women in literature - 1883 - 332 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ! What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my...form and beauty of her mind ; By virtue first, then chofce, a Queen ! Tell me, if she were not designed Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? ASK ME NO MORE... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - Ballads, English - 1924 - 326 pages
...pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my...first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind. [1570-1627] Chorus Gipsy Captain 2 Gipsy Gipsy Captain... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, — What are you when the rose is blown ? So when my mistress...choice, a queen, — Tell me, if she were not designed The eclipse and glory of her kind ? SIK HENRY WOTTON CONSTANCY. OUT upon it. I have loved Three whole... | |
 | English poetry - 1926 - 184 pages
...pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the Spring were all your own : What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my...first, then choice a queen : Tell me, if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind ? TO HIS LOVE WHOM HE HAD KISSED AGAINST HER WILL SIR THOMAS... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; , Х , design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind. GEORGE WITHER [1588-1667] A Christmas Carol So now is come... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own; What are you when the rose is blown? 15 tion ; My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell, Curling with metaphors a plain The eclipse and glory of her kind? 20 1624 Jofjn Jflettfrer (1579-1625) ASPATIA'S SONG LAY a garland... | |
 | Robert Balmain Mowat - Europe - 1927 - 474 pages
...went to Prague with his wife, the Princess Elizabeth, henceforth to be known as the Queen of Bohemia. So, when my mistress shall be seen, In form and beauty...first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me if she were not design'd Th' eclipse and glory of her kind.1 1 Sir Henry Wotton on Elizabeth of Bohemia (c. 1625).... | |
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... the wood, That warble forth Dame Nature's lays, Thinking your passions understood By your weak accents; what's your praise, When Philomel her voice shall raise? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins... 
