 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. MARY HOWITT. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it ? BEN JONSON. Bring flowers to crown the cup and lute, — Bring flowers — the bride is... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1879 - 844 pages
...the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements' strife. Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it ? Have you marked but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutched it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's down,... | |
 | William Brunton - American poetry - 1879 - 180 pages
...thus I gaze and dream and muse o'er you, So wondrous sweet, at once so old and new I 161 WATER-LILIES. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touchM it ? Ben Jonsoti. FROM lilies of the field in Holy Land, The Teacher drew a lesson of God's... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...doves, Supposing her the queen of loves That was thy mistress, best of gloves. MY LOVE. HAVE you seen a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall of snow Before the soil have smutched it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver Or swan's down ever... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 584 pages
...life All the gain, all the good of the element's strife. Have you seen a bright lily grow, lil'fore rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall o' the snow licfore the soil hath smutched it? Have you felt the wool of the Beaver? Or Swan's down ever? Or have... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...the face, As alone there, triumphs to the life, All the gain, all the good, of the elements' strife. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude...hands have touched it ? Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutched it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's down... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1881 - 210 pages
...through the face As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements' strife. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude...hands have touched it ? Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutched it ? Sonnet. ; Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or... | |
 | Ezra Pound, Marcella Spann - Literary Criticism - 1964 - 388 pages
...through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good of the elements' strife. Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it? Ha' you marked but the fall o' the snow Before the soil hath smutched it? Have you felt the wool of... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...ardour and the passion, Gives the lover weight and fashion. (1. 1-12) JCP; PoEL-2; QFR; SeCP; SeCV-1 2 ON; FaPoR; FF; FPL; GN; NOBA; OBAL; OBCA; PAH; PoLF; TrGrPo touch'd it? Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it? Have you felt... | |
 | Judith Moore - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 350 pages
...up and down, scratches branches against our windows. Her high heels click down the hall; she sings, "Have you seen but a bright lily grow, before rude hands have touched it?" I reach up, grab his nose, then squirm, turn around, get on my knees, put my arms around his neck.... | |
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Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she! 
