| John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 480 pages
...nor virtue ward the blow. 84 PRESENTING TO A LADY , , , A WHITE ROSE AND A RED, ON THE TENTH OF JUNE. IF this pale Rose offend your sight, It in your bosom...itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. But, Celia, should the red be chose, With gay vermilion bright, 'Twould sicken at each blush that glows,... | |
| William Somerville, Thomas Park - 1808 - 354 pages
...pain, And life's not worth our care. PRESENTING TO A LADY A WHITE ROSE AND A RED, ON THE TENTH OF JUNE. IF this pale Rose offend your sight, It in your bosom...itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there : But, Celia, should the red be chose, With gay vermilion bright, Twould sicken at each blush that glows,... | |
| Poetry - 1808 - 496 pages
...HOUSE OF YORK, To his Mistress of the House of Lancaster, IF this fair rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom wear ; 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. THE PRISONER. Jin, Hope, seraphic heav'nly maid, Impart thy lenient power ! Oh ! swift descend, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...»rite to you, nor write in vain. RESENTING TO A LADY A WHITE ROSI AMD А ПЕВ OK THE TENTH OP JUNI. IF this pale rose offend your sight, It in your bosom...wear ; Twill blush to find itself less white, And tura Lancastrian there. But, Celia, should the red be chose, With gay vermilion bright; Twould sicken... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...LADY A WHITE K0.1I AKD A RKD «* THE TENTH OF JUNE. IF this pale rose offend your sight, It in yonr bosom wear ; 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. But, Cclia, should the red be chose, With gay vermilion bright; Twould sicken at each blush that glows,... | |
| Thomas Condie - 1813 - 262 pages
...gone, | Thy strings mine elegy shall thrill, My harp alone. TO A LADY, viithatahite anda red rase. If this pale rose offend your sight, It in your bosom...wear ; ' Twill blush to find itself less white, And change its colour there, But, Celia, should the red be ehose, With gay vermilion bright ; 'Twould sicken... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 346 pages
...And life's not worth our care. PRESENTING TO A LADY A , WHITE ROSE AND A RED, ON THE TENTH OF JUNE. IF this pale Rose offend your sight It in your bosom...itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there : But, Celia, should the red be chose, With gay vermilion bright, T would sicken at each blush that glows,... | |
| 1822 - 496 pages
...Rose being presented to a Lancastrian Lady : — If this fair rope offend thy sight, It in thy bonom wear . 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. The ' busy bee' still pursues his ceaseless task ef collecting his varied sweets to form the honey... | |
| Cupid - 1826 - 252 pages
...The diction is, of course, modernized. If this fair rose offend thy sight, Plac'd on thy bosom bare, 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian — there. But if thy ruby lip it spy, And kiss it thou should'st deign, With envy pale, 'twill lose its dye, And Yorkist turn again. SO PURE,... | |
| William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 pages
...to a Lady of (A« House of Lancaster. If this fair rose offend thy sight, Placed on thy bosom bare, 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. But, if thy ruby lip it spy, And kiss it thou shouldst deign ; THE REPLY. Aminadab, with phiz demure, Knocked at Mr. Owen's door... | |
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