 | Robert Herrick - 1869 - 304 pages
...whisper to 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 BRIDE. TF nine times... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1869 - 304 pages
...whisper to 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 hppes are in a lover. THE TYTHE. To THE BRIDE. TF nine times... | |
 | Flower language - 1873 - 182 pages
...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. Carew RED AND WHITE ROSES.— WARMTH OP HEART. Carew, who lived 1580 — 1639, has thus interpreted... | |
 | Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pages
...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. Thomas Cariw. A FALSE LOVE. FALSE though she be to me and love, I'll ne'er pursue revenge : For still... | |
 | Dawn - 1874 - 340 pages
...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 is weak And bending, yet it doth not break : 1 must tell you these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover. ANDREW MARVELL. 1620—1678.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...yellow-green and sickly too? I will answer, these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. HEHRICK. Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break ? TO DAFFODILLS. FAIRE Daffodills. we weep to see You haste away so soone; As vet the early rising... | |
 | Floral poesy - 1875 - 360 pages
...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." Shakspeare, whose floral symbolism was perfect, introduces this delicate blossom into his pathetic... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1876 - 1140 pages
...why I send to you This primrose all bcpenrlcd with dew. • * # # Ask me why this flower dolh show So yellow, green, and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break." Shakespeare speaks of it in " Cymbeline " as emblematic of the youthful dead:— "With fairest flowers,... | |
 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1876 - 344 pages
...eares, The sweets of Love are mixt with tears. 2. 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. TF nine times... | |
 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1876 - 344 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 Bride. TF 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. 
