 Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide,...  Choice Specimens of English Literature - Page 143edited by - 1870 - 477 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...song. Like Pho-'bus thus, acquiring unsought praise, He catch'd at love, and 611'd his arms with bays. peace, I Whate'er the humanizing Muses tearh ; The...Progressive truth, the patient force of thought ; Inve lie. Tell her that's young, And shuns to ha%re her graces spy'd, That hadst thou sprung In deserts,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...song. Like Phoebus thus, acquiring unsought praise, He catch'd at love, and fill'd his arms with bays. SONG. Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her...Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spy'd, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended dy'd. Small... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 450 pages
...with the above stanza. — It needs to be once read only, to be for ever fixed in all poetic memories. Go lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time, and...How sweet and fair she seems to be! Tell her that's yonng, And shuns to have her graces spy'd, That had.«t thon sprung In deserts, where no men abide,... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloom'd with its owner a while ;— *. GO, LOVELY ROSE. A Song. Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time,...had'st thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retir'd, Bid her come... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1823 - 422 pages
...them to her, she discovered an additional stanza written by him at the bottom of the Song here copied. Go, lovely rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and...shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung ]n deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - Floriculture - 1825 - 516 pages
...should be." The following lines appear to have been sent with a Rose as a present to Sacharissa : " Go lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and...Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spy'd, ' That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide Thou must have uncommended died. Small... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...song. Like Phoebus thus, acquiring unsought praise, He catch'd at love, and fill'd his arms with bays. SONG. Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her...Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spy'd, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended dy'd. Small... | |
 | Thomas Lyle - Ballads, English - 1827 - 272 pages
...be regarded by his sovereign and queen, who were in Oxford at the time of his death. GO LOVELY ROSE. Go lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time, and...hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retir'd; Bid her come... | |
 | Ancient ballads - 1827 - 270 pages
...be regarded by his sovereign and queen, who were in Oxford at the time of his death. GO LOVELY ROSE. Go lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time, and...that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retir'd; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desir'd,... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - English poetry - 1827 - 486 pages
...written by him at the bottom of the Song here copied. Go, lovely rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time on me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee,...That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come... | |
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