 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...your eares, The sweets of love are mixt with tears. 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. ROBERT HERRICK. THE EARLY PRIMROSE.... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Flowers - 1877 - 270 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. The ode of Kirke White " On an Early Primrose," though rather long for insertion here, contains... | |
 | Between whiles - 1877 - 448 pages
...whisper in your ears, the sweets of love are washed with tears. ask me why this flower doth shew so yellow, green, and sickly too ; ask me why the stalk...these discover what doubts and fears are in a lover. CAREW. May Morning. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east, and... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1877 - 244 pages
...ears, — The sweets of love are mixt with tears. 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. * 196' TO PRIMROSES FILLED WITH... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1877 - 240 pages
...ears, — The sweets of love are mixt with tears. 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. * 196* TO PRIMROSES FILLED WITH... | |
 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1877 - 120 pages
...ears, — The sweets of love are mixt with tears. 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. TO PRIMROSES FILLED WITH MORNING-DEW.... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 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. WILLIAM BROWNE 1590—1645. THE SHEPHERD'S CHOICE, SHALL I tell you whom I love ? Hearken then awhile... | |
 | Herbert Kynaston - 1880 - 216 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. T. CAREW. XLV. Si tu quaesieris cur tibi flosculos anni primitias, pallidulum decus, mittam rore micantes,... | |
 | George Frederick L. Bampfield - 1880 - 544 pages
...whisper in your ears The sweets of love are washed with tears. Ask me why this flower doth shew So yellow green and sickly too, Ask me why the stalk is weak And bendeth, yet it does not break ; I must tell you — these discover ' What doubts and fears are in... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...your ears, The sweets of love are mixt with tears. Ask me why this flower does show So yellow-green, s will answer : these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. ROBERT HERRI«. HERE'S TO THEE, MY... | |
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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. 
