 You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue...  Poems - Pagina 14door Sir Henry Wotton - 1815 - 136 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Percy - 1767 - 420 pagina’s
...common people of the fkies, What are you when the Sun fhall rife ? 5 Ye violets that firft appeare, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the yeare, As if the Spring were all your own ; What are you when the Rofe is blown ? 10 Ye curious chaunters... | |
 | George Ellis - 1790 - 346 pagina’s
...liglit, You common people of the fkies, What are you when the fun doth rife ? Ye violets that firft appear, By your pure purple mantles known> Like the...virgins of the year, As if the Spring were all your own, What are you when the rofe is blown ? Ye curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame nature's... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - 1793 - 388 pagina’s
...accents, what's your praife When Philomel her voice mall raife ? You violets, that firft appear, 1 1 By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the fpring were all your own, What are you when the Rofe is blown > * Born 1568 ; dyed 1639. So, when my... | |
 | 1793 - 376 pagina’s
...praife When Philomel her voice fhall raife ? You violets, that firft appear, 11 By your pure'purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the fpring were all your own, What are you when the Rofe is blown ? « So, when my Miftrifs fhall be feen... | |
 | 1797 - 614 pagina’s
...forth Dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood By your weak accents; what's your praise When Philomel her voice shall raise ? " You violets...that first appear By your pure purple mantles known, i Like the proud "virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pagina’s
...your number than your light, You common people of the skies, What are you, wheu the sun doth rise ? Ye violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles...virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What aie you, when the rose is blown ! Ye curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame nature's... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 468 pagina’s
...forth dame Nature's lays, Thinking your voices understood By your weak accents ! what's your praise When Philomel her voice shall raise ? You violets...virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ! What are you, when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - 208 pagina’s
...when the sun shall rise ? You curious chaunters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays, You violets that first appear, By your, pure purple...virgins of the year, As if the Spring were all your own ! What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my Mistress shall be seen In form, and beauty of her... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...praife, " when. Philomel her voice ihall raiie? " You violets that firft appear, . " By y our pur e purple mantles known, •' Like the proud virgins of the year, " As if the spring were all your own, , " What are you when the rose is blown ? " So when my mistress (hall be seen, " \ajorm and beifufy... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pagina’s
...the sun doth rise? Ye violets lhat first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the prood virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? Ye curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame nature's... | |
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