 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 650 pages
...They were there ascribed to Sir Robert Ayrton. Can any of your readers furnish any account of him ? " I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might...thee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips can speak had power to more thee ; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. " I... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1852 - 782 pages
...They were there ascribed to Sir Robert Ayrton. Can any of your readers furnish any account of him? " I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might...thee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips can speak had power to move thee ; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. " I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...love thee still, but go no more A begging to a beggar's door. [/ do Confess Thau'rt Smooth and Fair.] I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might...love thee ; Had I not found the slightest prayer That Upe could speak had power to move thee : But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...near to love thee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lip could move had power to move thce ; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. I do confess thou 'rt sweet, yet find Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets, Thy favours are but like the wind, Which... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 756 pages
...stranger. Mrs. Lindsay was much inclined to think that a miracle had indeed happened. CHAP. XXIX. ' I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none.' Early the following morning Mr. Roberts told his wife that he had business of importance with Andrew... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 342 pages
...of genius to make an adaptation of the work of another poet. Let us hear forgotten Robert Ayton : " I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love tliee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could speak had power to move thee. But I can... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...fair, And I might have gone near to love thee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lip could move had power to move thee ; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. I do confess thou 'rt sweet, yet find Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets, Thy favours are but like the wind, Which... | |
 | Scotland - 1855 - 808 pages
...made them. They have been closely copied by Burns. "I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I miyht have gone near to love thee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could move, had power to more thee; But I can let thce now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. I do confess... | |
 | England - 1855 - 812 pages
...gone near to lovo thee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could move, had power to movo thee ; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by nono. I do confesa thou'rt sweet, yet find Thee such aa nnthrift of thy sweety Thy favours aro but... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 pages
...the sentiments, by giving them a Scottish dress." Burns' alteration, however, was a complete failure. I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might...thee, Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips can speak had power to move thee ; But I can let thee now alone, I do confess thee sweet, "but find... | |
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I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love thee ; Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could speak had power to move thee : But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none. 
