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" Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time... "
Preface. A historical essay on the origin and progress of national song ... - Page 63
1783
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Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...fair, and how fickle, they be. y A!as ' from the day that we met, What ' ope of an end to my woe»? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repofe. Yet timi- may diminiih the pain : The flower, and the fhrub, and the tree, Which 1 rear'd for her pleafure...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...Repine at her triumphs, and die. In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural strain of Hope: Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end...I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...to care. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of a higher degree: It is not for me to explain Alas! .from the day that we met, What hope of an end...I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flow'r, and the shruh, and the tree, Which I rear'd for...
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The lyre of love [ed. by P.L. Courtier].

Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 204 pages
...woes I endure ; Let reason instruct you to shun What it cannot instruct you to cure. Beware, how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It...that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ; When J cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose ? Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower,...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...to cure. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of a higher degree. It is not for me to explain Alas! from the day that we met. What hope of an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glaiice that undid ny repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flow'r, and the shrub, and the tree....
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The cabinet of poetry, containing the best entire pieces in the works of the ...

Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...it cannot instruct you to cure. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree : Jt is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle,...I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for...
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The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: In Two Volumes. Collated with the ...

William Shenstone, Thomas Park - 1808 - 342 pages
...woes I endure, Let reason instruct yon to shun What it cannot instruct you to cure. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree ; It...from the day that we met What hope of an end to my woesr Yet time may diminish the pain: The flow'r, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...She is faithless, and I am undone: Ye that witness the woes I endure, Let reason instruct you to shun Beware how ye loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher...I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flow'r, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for...
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...woes I endure, Let reason instruct you to shun What it cannot instruct you to cure. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It...I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her...
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Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...loiter in vain Amid nymphs of a higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how tickle, they be. Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope...I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time, may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for...
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