 | Ballads, Danish - 1806 - 448 pages
...recommendeth greefe, Despaire disswades the healing. Since that my heart cannot approve The meritls of your beauty, It comes not from defect of love,...and, in the opinion of the editor, better, than any one of those that have been pub? lished. SONG II. From the same. GREAT and proude, if shee deryde me,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 430 pages
...feels no smart Who sues for no compassion. " Since, if my plaints seem not to prove The conquest of thy beauty ; It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty. " For knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As all desire but none deserve... | |
 | English literature - 1807 - 748 pages
...releeie. Then heflerd the revealing, Where beauty recommcndfth grccfe, Defpair diflwadis the healing. " Since that my heart cannot approve The meritts of your beauty, It comes not from defeft of love, But from excefs of dewty. " Silence in love bewraics more woe Than woordes, rtiough... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Celebrities - 1835 - 300 pages
...feels no smart Who sues for no compassIon ; Since, if my plaints seem not to prove The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty. For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection As all desire, but none deserve,... | |
 | Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...feels no smart That sues for no compassion ; Since, if my plaints seem not to prove The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty. For knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection As all desire, but none deserve A... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...no smart, That sues for no compassion ; Since if my plaints serve not to approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty : For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As all desire, but none deserve,... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...feels no smart, That sues for no compassion ; Since if my plaints seem not to prove The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty ; For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As all desire, bnt none deserve,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Henry Wotton - English poetry - 1870 - 322 pages
...smart, That sues for no compassion ; Since, if my plaints serve not to approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty. 1 Signed as below in a MS. formerly belonging to the late Mr. Pickering. The text of the Oxford... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...no smart, That sues for no compassion; Since if my plaints serve not to approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty: For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As all desire, but none deserve,... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads, English - 1875 - 418 pages
...feels no smart, That sues for no compassion. 2. Since that my thoughts serve not to prove The conquest of your Beauty, It comes not from defect of Love, But from excess of duty. 3. For think you that I sue to serve A Saint of such perfection As all desire, but none deserve... | |
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The conquest of your beauty It comes not from defect of love But from excess of duty. For knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As all desire but none deserve A place in her affection, I rather choose to want relief Than venture the... 
