 | John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 508 pages
...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 is weak, And hending, yet it doth not break ; I must tell you these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover.... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 474 pages
...will whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears. Ask me why this flower doth shew Ask me why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it...these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. The Inquiry. AMONGST the myrtles as I walk'd, Love and my sighs thus intertalk'd: " Tell me," said... | |
 | 1811 - 418 pages
...mix'd with tears. Ask me, why this flow'r does shew So yellow-green and sickly too— VOL. III. 3 B i 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. UPON JULIA'S HAIR TILLED WITH DEW.... | |
 | Richard Clark - Madrigals, English - 1814 - 530 pages
...love are washed with tears." Ask me, " why this flower doth shew So yellow green, and sickly too ? Why the stalk is weak and bending, Yet it doth not...these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover." Carew's Poems. GLEE for Four Voices. R. COOKE. ! let nought to love displeasing, My Winifreda, move... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...tars The sweets of love are washed with tears ! Ask me, why this flower doth shew So yellow, (»reen , and sickly too ? Ask me, why the stalk is weak, And...it doth not break ? I must tell you these discover That doubts and fears are in a lover ! Herriek, who as we before observed, was contemporary with Curew,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...me why this flower doth show Asli me why the stalk is weak, So yellow, green, and sickly too ; • And bending, yet it doth not break;— I must tell...these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. CAREW. , 1 —this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 392 pages
...whisper to your ears, The sweets of love are mix'd with tears. Ask me why this flow'r 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." Those which succeed are in a more... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 384 pages
...whisper to your ears, The sweets of love are mix'd with tears. Ask me why this flow'r 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." Those which succeed are in a more... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 346 pages
...your eares, The sweets of love are mixt with tears. Ask me why this flower do's 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. THE TYTHE. TO THE DIM I!!•:. IF nine... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1825 - 348 pages
...your cares, The sweets of love are mixt with tears. Ask me why this flower do's 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. THE TYTHE. TO THE BRIDE. IF nine times... | |
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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. 
