 | 1805 - 948 sider
...pledges of a fruitful tree. Why do ye fall to fax ? Your date is not so past ; But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile ; And go at last. • What, were ye born to be An hour or half s delight ; And so to bid good-night ? 'Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your... | |
 | 1822 - 688 sider
...and sweet," that we cannot resist the temptation of transplanting it to a more congenial soil. To li Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An linur or half's... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 912 sider
...Where no foot hath A path : There will I spend, And end My wearied years In tears. To Blossoms. i. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so...fast ? Your date is not so past ; But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile ; And go at last. 2. What, were ye born to be An hour or... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 456 sider
...spend, And end My wearied years In tears. To Blossoms. I. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do 70 fall so fast? Your date is not so past ; But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile ; And go at last. 2. What, were ye born to be An hour or... | |
 | 1807 - 308 sider
...LITERARY HOURS, by Dr. Drake, Vol. JII. TO BLOSSOMS. FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye.fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awile, To blush and gently smile ; And go at last. What, were. ye born to be An hour or halPs... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 sider
...vow ; But, having scap'd temptation's shelf, Know virtue taught thee, not thyself. CL. TO BLOSSOMS. FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush, and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half... | |
 | 1814 - 556 sider
...love's eye, Bcmain'd the tear of parting sorrow. TO BLOSSOMS. FAIR pledges of a fruitful Why do you fall so fast ! Your date is not SO past ; But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile ; And go at lust. What were you born to be A n hour or two's... | |
 | 1814 - 570 sider
...of a fruitful tree, Why do you fall so fast > Your date is not so past , But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile ; And go at last. What were you born to be An hour or two's delight ; A nd so to bid good night ; Twas pity nature brought you... | |
 | 1823 - 496 sider
...uneasy and passionate hatred, of the things of the nobler being. E. TO BLOSSOMS. BY ROBERT HERRICK. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date M not so past, Bat you may stay yet here awhile, To blush und gently smile, And go at lost. What, were... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 sider
...never failing source of the most pleasing reflections : Fair pledges of a fruitful tre»i Why do you fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile ; And go at last. What were you born to be An hour or two's... | |
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To BLOSSOMS FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night? 
