 | 1836 - 436 Seiten
...washed in tears : Ask mo why this flower doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too; Ask me why this stalk is weak And bending yet it doth not break ;...these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. The poetical people of those days were conceited — but such conceits ! I wish we had a few of them... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 Seiten
...This primrose all bepearled with dew ? Ask me why this flower doth shew, So yellow, green, and palely too, Ask me why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it doth not break ? I the rather quote the last extract, as Carew was, perhaps, the first model of that elaborate finish... | |
 | 1845 - 614 Seiten
...whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are washed with tears : Ask me why this flower doth show So , THOMAS CAJLEW. LOVE IS A SICKNESS. LOVE is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing ; A plant... | |
 | 1841 - 178 Seiten
...whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are washt with tears : Ask me why this flow'r doth shew So yellow, green, and sickly too; Ask me why the stalk...these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. LOVE ETERNAL. IF love be holy, if that mystery Of co- united hearts be sacrament; If the unbounded... | |
 | Thomas Carew, Inigo Jones - 1845 - 234 Seiten
...Primrose all bepearled with dew; I straight will whisper in your ears, Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk...these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover.* THE TINDER. OF what mould did nature frame me ? Or was it her intent to shame me, That no woman can... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 Seiten
...whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears. Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk...these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. COWLEY, CRASHAW AND DENHAM. In the beginning of the seventeenth century, a newrace of poets rose. In... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - 1848 - 414 Seiten
...love are washt with tears. Aske me why this flow'r doth shew So yellow, green, and sickly too; Aske me why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it doth...these discover What doubts and fears are in a Lover. The following lines from Drayton's Muses Elysium may afford some useful hints for the arrangement of... | |
 | 1888 - 668 Seiten
...sweets of Love are mixt with tears. Ask me why thia flower do's show So yellow-green, and sickly too 1 Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, (yet it doth not break ?) , I will answer. These discover What fainting hopes are in a Lover. Herrick, p. 243. To PrimroieißU'd... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1850 - 356 Seiten
...whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are washed with tears : Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk...these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. THOMA.S XA 3 X AlVIVftt BY HARRY SUNDKRLAND. MOST boys are inclined to be spendthrifts. Sixpences and... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 Seiten
...whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears. Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow, green, and sickly too; Ask me why the stalk...these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. CAREW. Serenade. Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phœbus 'gins arise, His steeds to... | |
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Ask me why this flower does show So yellow-green, and sickly too ? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending (yet it doth not break) ? I will answer : These discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. 
