Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the bridal day, which is not long: Sweet Thames! run softly, till I end my song. Britomart - Page xiby Edmund Spenser - 1903 - 266 pagesFull view - About this book
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...afflict my brain, Walk'd forth to ease my pain 10 Along the shore of silver streaming Thames, Whose rushy bank, the which his river hems, Was painted all with variable flowers, And all the meeds adorn'd with dainty gems, Fit to deck maidens. bowres, 15 And crown their paramours Against the... | |
| English literature - 1837 - 496 pages
...primrose true. With store of vermeil roses '. Along the s.hore of silver streaming Thames, Whose rushy bank, the which his river hems, Was painted all with variable flowers, And all his rneada adorned with dainty gems Fit to deck maiden's bowers, And crown their paramours Against... | |
| Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 350 pages
...afflict my brain,) Walk'd forth to ease my pain Along the shore of silver streaming Thames ; Whose rutty3 bank, the which his river hems, Was painted all with variable flowers, And all the meads adorn'd with dainty gems, Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the bridal... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...which still do fly away Like empty shadows, did afflict my brain) Walk'd forth to ease my pain Along the shore of silver-streaming Thames; Whose rutty...painted all with variable flowers, And all the meads adorn'd with dainty gems Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the bridal... | |
| English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...which still do fly away Like empty shadows, did afflict my brain) Walk'd forth to ease my pain Along the shore of silver-streaming Thames ; Whose rutty...river hems, Was painted all with variable flowers, Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the flfeal day, which is not long :... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...which still do fly away Like empty shadows, did afflict my brain) Walk'd forth to ease my pain Along the shore of silver-streaming Thames ; Whose rutty...painted all with variable flowers, And all the meads adorn'd with dainty gems Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the bridal-day,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1868 - 352 pages
...my brain,) Walk'd forth to case my pain 10 Along the shore of silver streaming Thames ; Whose rutty3 bank, the which his river hems, Was painted all with variable flowers, And all the meads adorn'd with dainty gems, Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the bridal... | |
| Christian literature - 1868 - 588 pages
...brain) Walked foith to cnse my pain Along the shore of silver-streaming Thames ; Whose rutty bnnb, the which his river hems, Was painted all with variable...adorned with dainty gems Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the bridal day, which is not long. Steed Tbames 1 run softly till... | |
| English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...which still do fly away Like empty shadows, did afflict my brain) Walk'd forth to ease my pain Along the shore of silver-streaming Thames ; Whose rutty...painted all with variable flowers, And all the meads adorn'd with dainty gems Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the bridal... | |
| Richard William Church - Novelists, English - 1879 - 202 pages
...appear Than all (hose forty which my life outwent." Sonnef LX., probably written in 1593 or 1594. Along the shore of silver-streaming Thames ; Whose rutty...adorned with dainty gems Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the bridal day, which is not long : Sweet Thames ! run softly, till... | |
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