| English poetry - 1866 - 396 pages
...blush for thee, To love thee still, but go no more A begging at a beggar's door. " I DO CONFESS." DC) confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have...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 do... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - Ballads, English - 1866 - 240 pages
...sacred cherries to come nigh, Till cherry-rife themselves do cry. ALLISON'S HOUR'S RECREATION IN Music. I DO confess thourt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love thee, Had I not found the Jlighteft prayer That lips could speak had power to move thee: But I can let thee now alone, As worthy... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...earth's woes? LYRA APOSTOLICA I 176 TO HIS FORSAKEN MISTRESS DO confesse thou'rt smooth and faire, and I might have gone near to love thee, had I not found the slightest prayer that lips could move, had power to move thee; but I can let thee now alone as worthy to be loved by none. I do confesse... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - Anthologies - 1867 - 428 pages
...me, Sweet-and-twenty, Youth 'sa stuff will not endure. William Shakspere. XVL I DO confess thou 'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love...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, That... | |
| J. H. - English poetry - 1867 - 860 pages
...every plume, And rest them when she's here. Richard Jago. 544. I DO CONFESS THOU'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 lip could move had power to move thee ; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy to be loved by none.... | |
| Severn river - English poetry - 1867 - 458 pages
...medicinaqve : saepe Spernit homo, spretam saepe reqvirit opem. Unthrifty Sweetness. DO confess thce smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love...Had I not found the slightest prayer That lips could feign had power to move thee. But I can let thee now alone As worthy to he loved hy none. I do confess... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...not so by proof I see ? Fie, fie upon such treachery! William Hunnis. XIV TO HIS FORSAKEN MISTRESS. I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might...power to move thee; But I can let thee now alone, 5 As worthy to be loved by none. I do confess thou'rt sweet, but find Thee such an unthrift of thy... | |
| Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1869 - 446 pages
...Times Adieu, my Love, Alas that I muft leave thee. Inconjlancy reproved. 1" Do confefs thou'rt fmooth and fair, -*- And I might have gone near to love thee, Had I not found, the flighteft Prayer That Lips couldfpeak,had Power to movethee; But I can let thee now alone, As worthy... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...not so by proof I see? Fie, fie upon such treachery ! William Hunnis. xv TO HIS FORSAKEN MISTRESS. I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might...power to move thee; But I can let thee now alone, 5 As worthy to be loved by none. I do confess thou'rt sweet, but find Thee such an unthrift of thy... | |
| 1870 - 464 pages
...the slightest prayer That lips could speak, had power to move thee; But I can let thee now alone, 5 As worthy to be loved by none. I do confess thou'rt sweet, but find Thee such an unthrift of thy sweets, Thy favours are but like the wind, That kisses everything... | |
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