 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...never failing source of the most pleasing reflections : Fair pledges of a fruitful tre»i Why do you fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may...blush and gently smile ; And go at last. What were you born to be An hour or two's delight ; And so to bid good night ! •Twas pity Nature brought you... | |
 | 1823 - 496 pages
...uneasy and passionate hatred, of the things of the nobler being. E. TO BLOSSOMS. BY ROBERT HERRICK. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date M not so past, Bat you may stay yet here awhile, To blush und gently smile, And go at lost. What, were... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...quiet, The pain without the peace of deatb. TO BLOSSOMS. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fail so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay...And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half s deliirht, And MI to bid good night ? •Twas pity Nature .brought ye forth, Merely to shew your... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 440 pages
...Thy silvery feet, My soul I'll pour into thee. TO BLOSSOMS. FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why dp ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past ; . But...born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night ? But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...neverfailing source of the most pleasing reflections :— Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do you fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may...blush and gently smile ; And go at last. What! were you born to be An hour or two's delight; And so to bid good night ? 'Twas pity Nature brought you forth... | |
 | 1847 - 648 pages
...which a few specimens are given below.] I. — TO BLOSSOMS. FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do you fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may yet here stay awhile To blush, and gently smile, And go at last. What! were ye born to be An hour or... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 pages
...golden chaine, too, and the chick crown. TO BLOSSOMS. FAIRE pledges of a fruitfull tree, Why doe yee fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here a while, To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were yee borne to be An houre or half's delight,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - English fiction - 1824 - 396 pages
...caught some of the falling blossoms, '• while I apostrophize them in some pretty lines of Herrick's. TO BLoSSoMS. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why...fast ? Your date is not so past ; But you may stay here yet a while, To blush and gently smile ; And go at last. What were ye born to be, An hour or half's... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...which are exposed to that quarter. Oaks and other large trees suffer from this blight."* To Blostomi. he great sun begins his state. Robed inflames, and...thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near genMy smile, And go at last ! What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight Ï And so to bid good... | |
 | Robert Herrick - Elegiac poetry, English - 1825 - 334 pages
...golden chaine, too, and the civick crown. TO BLOSSOMS. FAIRE pledges of a fruitfull tree, Why doe yee fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here a while, To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were yee borne to be An houre or half's delight,... | |
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TO BLOSSOMS FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile, And go at last. 
