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" The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears ; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where... "
Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan - Page 41
by Henry Grattan - 1839
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Gryll grange, by the author of 'Headlong hall'.

Thomas Love Peacock - 1861 - 334 pages
...combination, by one of our greatest poets, of flowers that never blossom in the same season: — Bring the rathe primrose, that forsaken dies, The tufted...crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansie freakt with jet, The glowing violet, The musk rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips...
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The Genius and Character of Robert Burns: An Essay and Criticism on His Life ...

John Wilson - 1861 - 236 pages
...the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rath primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with jet, The growing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan...
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Verses and Translations

Charles Stuart Calverley - 1862 - 220 pages
...That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted...the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower...
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Complete Poetical Works

John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...That on the green-turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies. The tufted...and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...on the green turf suck the honied showers, HO And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted...jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jot, The glowing violet, U5 The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 63

1864 - 588 pages
...That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with venal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted...the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the peasive head, And every flower...
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Words that Taste Good

Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...on the same or a similar subject. Here are some poems for comparison. Most of us like flowers. . . . primrose that forsaken dies; The tufted crow-toe,...jet, The glowing violet, The musk rose . . . and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head. . . And daffadillies fill their...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...Camus' verbal inadequacy is one example. The catalogue of flowers is another: Bring the rathe Primsore that forsaken dies, The tufted Crow-toe, and pale Jessamine, The white Pink, and the Pansy freakt with jet, The glowing Violet, The Musk-rose, and the well-attir'd Woodbine, With Cowslips wan...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...on the green turf suck the honied showers, 140 And purple all the ground with vemal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies. The tufted...and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freakt with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine. With cowslips wan...
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Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance ...

Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 pages
...That on the green turf such the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe Primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted...and pale Jessamine, The white Pink, and the Pansy freakt with jet, The glowing Violet, The Musk-rose, and the well-attir'd Woodbine, With Cowslips wan...
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