 Ask me why this flower does show So yellow-green, and sickly too ? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending (yet it doth not break) ? I will answer : These discover What fainting hopes are in a lover.  The Crystal Fount for 1851 - Page 241edited by - 1850 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - 1810 - 508 pages
...primrose all bepearl'd with dew ; I straight will whisper in your ears, The sweets of love are wash'd with tears. Ask me why this flower doth show So yellow,...and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak, And hending, yet it doth not break ; I must tell you these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover.... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 pages
...? I will whisper to your ears, The sweets of love are mix'd with tears. Ask me why this flow'r does show So yellow green, and sickly too ? Ask me why...stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break ? I will answer, these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. POEM CLXXVI1I.] This poem is also found... | |
 | 1811 - 418 pages
...mix'd with tears. Ask me, why this flow'r does shew So yellow-green and sickly too— VOL. III. 3 B i Ask me, why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break— I will answer — these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. UPON JULIA'S HAIR TILLED WITH DEW.... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...? I will whisper to your ears, The sweets of love are mix'd with tears. Ask me why this flow'r does show ^ So yellow green, and sickly too ? Ask me why...stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break ? I will answer, these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover." Those which succeed are in a more... | |
 | 1822 - 384 pages
...? I will whisper to your ears, The sweets of love are mix'd with tears. Ask me why this flow'r does show So yellow green, and sickly too ? Ask me why...stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break ? I will answer, these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover." Those which succeed are in a more... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 346 pages
...your eares, The sweets of love are mixt with tears. Ask me why this flower do's show So yellow-green, and sickly too ? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break ? I will answer, these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. THE TYTHE. TO THE DIM I!!•:. IF nine... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1825 - 348 pages
...your cares, The sweets of love are mixt with tears. Ask me why this flower do's show So yellow-green, and sickly too ? Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break ? . I will answer, these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. THE TYTHE. TO THE BRIDE. IF nine times... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...dew? I will whisper to your ears, The sweets of love are mixed with tears. Ask me why this flower does show So yellow green and sickly too ? Ask me why the...stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break ? I will answer, these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. THREE EPITAPHS. UPON A CHILD HERE she... | |
 | 1832 - 206 pages
...will whisper in your ears The sweets of love are washed with tears. Ask me why this flower does shew So yellow green, and sickly too ? Ask me why the stalk is weak, And bending, yet it doth not break ? I will answer, these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. 24 ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A Fj! O FAIKEST... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...sweets of love are mixed with tears. Ask me why this flower doth shew So yellow-green, and sickly too 1 Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending, yet it doth not break 1 I will answer, these discover What fainting hopes are in a lover. The Primrose. — Hesperides. THE... | |
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