 | American literature - 1834 - 320 pages
...pledges of a fruitful tree, What, were ye born to be An hour or halPs delight, And so to bid good night 1 Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile, Nor fade at last. — Herrick. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. NE W-YO RK: HARPER AND BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET.... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 876 pages
...and shoots which are exposed to that quarter. Oaks and other large trees suffer from this blight."* To Blossoms. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why...blush and gently smile, And go at last! What, were ye bom to be An hour or halfs delight? And so to bid good night "! Tis pity Nature brought ye forth Merely... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...feet, My soule I'll poure into thee I 'IU BLOSSOMS. [.'A IRE pledges of a fruitfull tree, Why do yee fall so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may...blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were yee borne to be An houre or half s delight, And so to bid good night? Twas pitie nature brought yee... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...silv'ry feet, My soule I'll poure into thee ! TO BLOSSOMS. FA lRE pledges of a fruitfull tree, Why do yee fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may...blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were yee borne to be An houre or hull's delight, And so to bid good night ? 'Twas pitie nature brought yee... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 440 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 awhile, To blush and gently smile : A nd go at last. What were ye born to be, An hour or half's... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1836 - 776 pages
...to Portia. Farewell ! FADED BLOSSOMS. FAIR pl«l{;es of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast 'I Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here...awhile, To blush, and gently smile, And go at last. \Yhat, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight. And so to bid good niijht ? 'T was pity IVaturc... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...his renown : A dream, a vapour, or an ague fit 13 L'AMOUR propre est, helas ! le plus sot des amours. TO BLOSSOMS. FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why...fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay here yet awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...Ode to Blossoms is quaint, tender, and unaffected : Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fade so fast ? Your date is not so past ; But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile, Aud go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half s delight, And so to bid good night ? 'Tis... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...tender, and unaffected : Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fade so fast ? Your date is uot so past ; But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile, Aud go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half s delight, And so to bid good night ? 'Tis... | |
 | 1838 - 472 pages
...Until we reach Ihe tomb! But there shall fade each earthly stain. And we (hall all be pure again. FADED BLOSSOMS. FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree. Why do ye fall so last? But you may stay yet here awhile. Your date is not so past. And go at last. What, were ye born... | |
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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. 
