 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 sider
...fold, When rivers rage and rocks grow cold ; And Philomel becometh dumb, The rest complain of cares to come. • The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields ; A honey tongue — a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 sider
...young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move, To live with thee and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold. And Philomel becometh dumb, And all complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1854 - 348 sider
...tables — are luxuries, and consist not with the parsimony and simplicity of rural life and manners. But Time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage and rocks grow cold ; Tkeu Philomel becometh dumb, And age complains of care to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 sider
...young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move, To live with thee and be thy love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, And Philomel becometh dumb, And all complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields... | |
 | R. Wilcher - 1985 - 214 sider
...Shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move, To live with thee, and be thy love. Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When Rivers rage, and Rocks grow cold, And Philomel becometh dumb, The rest complains of cares to come. But could youth last, and love still... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - 1986 - 422 sider
...young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love. But Time drives flocks from field to fold; When rivers rage and rocks grow cold; And Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 sider
...line) is only the more forceful when we remind ourselves that these lines are preceded by the lines, "The flowers do fade, and wanton fields / To wayward winter reckoning yields." The unpredictability and indiscriminacy of unlimited fertility turn into the unpredictability and indiscriminacy... | |
 | James Shapiro - 1991 - 234 sider
...young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasure might me move To live with thee and be thy love. But Time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage and rocks grow cold, And Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields... | |
 | Alberta Turner - 1992 - 228 sider
...shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, And Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields... | |
 | S. K. Heninger - 1994 - 228 sider
...Sheepheards tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move, To live with thee, and be thy love. Time drives the flocks from field to fold. When Rivers rage, and Rocks grow cold, And PhiIomeII becommeth dombe, The rest complaines of cares to come. The flowers doe fade, & wanton... | |
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The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning yields: A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. 
