 Philomel her voice shall raise ? You violets that first appear, By your 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 shall be seen In form...  The Courtly Poets from Raleigh to Montrose - Seite 85von Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Henry Wotton - 1870 - 261 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1797 - 614 Seiten
...were all your own, What are you when the rose is blswn ? " So when my mistress shall be seen, Inform and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice a queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd . The eclipse and glory of her kind." Such extravaganzas were in the true spirit of the times.'... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - 208 Seiten
...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 shall be seen In form, and beauty...first, then choice, a Queen ! Tell me, if she were not design'd The' eclipse and glory of her kind} GEORGE WITTIER. 1622. George Wither was born June 11,1588,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 482 Seiten
...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 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 ? A Description of the Country's Recreations. QUIVERING... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 472 Seiten
...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 shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind ; A Description of the Country's Recreations. QUIVERING Fear, heart-tearing Cares, Anxious Sighs, untimely... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 338 Seiten
...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 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 ? * The rise and fall of that favourite and minion of King... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 846 Seiten
...proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your owa I What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen, In form and beauty...choice a Queen ! Tell me, if she were not designed Th' eclipse and glory of her kind? HW Let not our readers mistake this excellent little poem for an... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1822 - 434 Seiten
...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 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." While the charms of this royal lady were capable of inspiring... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 404 Seiten
...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 shall be seen In form and beauty...first, then choice, a queen! Tell me if she were not design'd The' eclipse and glory of her kind? TO THE SIR II. WOTTON. HONOURABLE MISS CARTERET. BLOOM... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 444 Seiten
...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 shall be seen In form and beauty...first, then choice, a queen ! Tell me if she were not design'd The' eclipse and glory of her kind? SIR H. WOTTON. TO THE HONOURABLE MISS CARTERET. BLOOM... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1825 - 564 Seiten
...Philomel her voice doth ratief So, when my Princesse shall be seen. In sweetnesse of her lookes and mlnde. By Virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me if she were not design'd Tli' eclipse and glory of her kind] It would be of little interest to add here all the variations... | |
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