| Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 lapas
...manners by bards of all degrees Roses at first were white, Till they could not agree Whether my Sappho's breast Or they more white should be. But,...which, believe the rest, The roses first came red. 141 scenes so especially patronized by those tutelar divinities, and many an oft-used but still current... | |
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 lapas
...manners by bards of all degrees Roses at first were white, Till they could not agree Whether my Sappho's breast Or they more white should be. But,...which, believe the rest, The roses first came red. 139 scenes so especially patronized by those tutelar divinities, and many an oft-used but still current... | |
| Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 lapas
...Till they could not agree Whether my Sappho's breast Or they more white should be. But being vanquisht quite, A blush their cheeks bespread ; Since which, believe the rest, The roses first came red." Or we are borne away by Shakspeare into the Temple Garden, and pluck a rose with Plantagenet or Somerset,... | |
| 1893 - 846 lapas
...the compliment of the ruddy change. Hoses at first were white, Till they could not agree Whether my Sappho's breast Or they more white should be. But...which, believe the rest, The roses first came red. Its scent, also, is borrowed from the lips and breath of Love, but among the crowd of contending fair... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 lapas
...bids come away 770. Roses at first were white, Till they could not agree Whether my Sappho's breast But being vanquished quite, A blush their cheeks bespread, Since which, believe the rest, .Roses first came red. 771. Quae te sub tenera rapuere, Poeta, juventa, O utinam me crudelia fata vocent... | |
| Severn river - 1867 - 458 lapas
...cannot gain. SHERIDAN. The Red Red Roses. S at first were white, Till they could not agree Whether my Sappho's breast Or they more white should be ; But...their cheeks bespread, Since which, believe the rest, Roses first came red. НЕПШСК. Ut ametitr amabílis esto. incst illis oculis, me iudiee, fulgor,... | |
| 1879 - 612 lapas
...Till they could not agree Whether my Sappho's breast Or they more white should be. But being vanquisht quite, A blush their cheeks bespread ; Since which, believe the rest, The roses first came red. ' In a very similar tone writes an anonymous author in Wit Restored (1658): ' Shall I tell you how... | |
| H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 204 lapas
...Till they co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast Or they more white should be. But being vanquisht quite, A blush their cheeks bespread, Since which, believe the rest, The roses first came red. HERRICK. CLXXI. HOW VIOLETS CAME BLEW. ' LOVE on a day, wise poets tell, Some time in wrangling spent,... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1884 - 342 lapas
...greatest, so of meanest worth, Conceived with grief are, and with tears brought forth. How Roses came Red. But being vanquished quite, A blush their cheeks bespread;...which, believe the rest, The roses first came red. Comfort to a Lady on the Death of her Husband. DRY your sweet cheek, long drowned with sorrow's rain;... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1885 - 330 lapas
...brought forth. How Roses came Red. ROSES at first were white, Till they could not agree, Whether my Sappho's breast, Or they more white should be. But...which, believe the rest, The roses first came red. Comfort to a Lady on the Death of her Husband. DRY your sweet cheek, long drowned with sorrow's rain... | |
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