 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...fine folk of the town? To think that a beauty so gay, So kind and so consiant would prove; .Or go ciad like our maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love ? ' What thongh I have skill to complain, Thongh the Muses my temples have crown'd; What thongh, when they hear... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...grieve, To forsake the fine folk of the town ? To think that a beauty so gay, So kind and so constant would prove; Or go clad like our maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love? " What though 1 have skill to complain, Though the Muscs my temples have crown'd; Ah, Colin, thy hopes are... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...grieve, To forsake the fine folk of the town ? To think that a beauty so gay, So kind and so constant would prove; Or go clad like our maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love ? " What though I have skill to complain, Though the Muses my temples have crown'd; What, though, when thty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...grieve, To forsake the tine folk of the tow n ? To think that a beauty so gay, So kind and so constant would prove; Or go clad like our maidens in gray, Or live iu a cottage on love; " What though I have skill to complain, Though the Muses my temples have crown'd;... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...grieve, To forsake the fine folk of the. town ? To think that a beauty so gay, So kind and so constant would prove ; Or go clad like our maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love ? " What though I have skill to complain, Though the Muses my temples have crownM ; What though, when they hear... | |
 | Vincent Bourne, John Mitford - Fine bindings - 1840 - 376 pages
...grieve, To forsake the fine folk of the town : To think that a beauty so gay So kind and so constant would prove ; Or go clad like our maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love. What though I have skill to complain ! Though the muses my temples have crown'd ! What though, when they... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...grieve To forsake the fine folk of the town ; To think that a beauty so gay So kind and so constant would prove, Or go clad, like our maidens, in gray, Or live in a cottage on love ! What though I have skill to complain, Though the muses my temples have crown'd; What though, when they hear... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...grieve, To forsake the fine folk of the town ! To think that a beauty so gay, So kind and so constant would prove ; Or go clad like our maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love ! " What though I have skill to complain, Though the Muses my temples have crowned ; What though, when they... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...grieve, To forsake the fine folk of the town ! To think that a beauty so gay, So kind and so constant would prove; Or go clad like our maidens in gray, Or live in a cottage on love ! " What though I have skill to complain, Though the Muses my temples have crowned ; What though, when they... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - Ballads, English - 1871 - 294 pages
...She could dote on fo lowly a clown, Or that her fond heart would not grieve, To forfake the fine folk of the town ; To think that a beauty fo gay, So kind...conftant would prove ; Or go clad like our maidens in grey, Or live in a cottage on love ? What though I have fkill to complain, Tho' the mufes my temples... | |
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To forsake the fine folk of the town ! To think that a beauty so gay, So kind and so constant... 
