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 of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither β... The Complete Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a ... - Page 120by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1860Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...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...spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy bed of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies : Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 pages
...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...yields. A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's fpnng, but farrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy fhces, thy bed of rofes. Thy cap, thy Mrtle, and thy pofies,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 476 pages
...rivers rage, aud rocks grow .cold, ,,And Philomel becometh iumb, ,, -Mi-1 all complain of -cares tq come : ,,The flowers do fade, -and "wanton fields...wayward winter reckoning yields. ,,A honey tongue, a hi .in of gall, ,,Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's falL ,,Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds .of roses,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 pages
...complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton field* To wajward winter reckoning yield : A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's I all. Thy gowns, ihy shoes, thy bed of roses. Thy cap, thy girdle, and thy posies; Some break, some... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 522 pages
...Philomel hecometh dumh, " And all complain of cares to come : " The flowers do fade, and wanton fieldi " To wayward winter reckoning yields. ' A honey tongue, a heart of gall, -. Is fancy's spring, hut sorrow's fall. ' Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy heds of roses, ' Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies,... | |
| Arthur Cayley - Explorers - 1806 - 466 pages
...field to foldr When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold ; Aud Philomel becomelh dumb, The rest complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton...beds of roses> Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Sooii break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw arid ivy... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...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 To wayward winter reckoning yield : A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes,... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold ; And Philomel becometh dumh, And all complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter'* reckoning yield; A honey tongue β a heart of grill, la fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy (owns, thy shoes,... | |
| John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...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 To wayward winter reck'ning yields ; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns,... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 482 pages
...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...kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,In folly ripe, in reason rotten. ' Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber... | |
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