 Invite the tuneful birds to sing ; And while they warble from each spray, Love melts the universal lay. Let us, Amanda, timely wise, Like them improve the hour that flies, And in soft raptures waste the day Among the birks of Invermay.  Scotish Songs: In Two Volumes - Pagina 1421869 - 575 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1714 - 430 pagine
...; As that will ftrip the verdant made. Our tafte of pleafure then is o'er ; The feather'd fongfters love no more ; And when they droop, and we decay, Adieu the fhades of Endermay ! SONG XVII. AN ADDRESS TO HIS MISTRESS. BY MR. WILLIAM FALCONER. Set by Mr. Shield,... | |
 | Lark - 1742 - 412 pagine
...As that muftblaft each verdant Shade : Our Tafte of Pleafure then is o'er ; The feather'd Songfters love no more ; And when they droop, and we decay, Adieu the Birks of Kmkrmay. And behold my charming Love Rejoice with me this happy Day. Sjf/i/ia, at length,... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - 1750 - 492 pagine
...the hour that flies"; And in loft rap:ures walle the day Among the biiks of Invermay. II. For foon the winter of the year, And age. life's winter, will appear, At this thy living bloom will fade, *U that wil; itrip the verdant ftude : Our Our tafle of pleafure then h o'er, The feather'd... | |
 | David Mallet - 1759 - 228 pagine
...the hour that flys ; And, in foft raptures, wafte the day, Among the fhades of ENDERMAY. II. For foon the winter of the year, And age, life's winter, will appear : At this, thy living bloom muft fade ; As that will ftrip the verdant fhade. Our tafte of pkafure then is o'er ; The feather'd... | |
 | John Wesley - 1781 - 720 pagine
...the hour that flies, In pious works employ the day, And join at night, to praife and pray. For foon the winter of the year, And age, life's winter, will appear; At this,, thy vivid fenfe will fade, As that will ftrip the verdant fhade ; Improving time will then be o'er, Youth's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 410 pagine
...fade}; As that will ftrip the verdant fhade. Our tafte of pleafure then is o'er; The feather'd fongfters love no more : And. when they droop, and we decay, Adieu the fhades of Endexmay I OF VERBAL CRITICISM. ADVERT1sEMENT TO THE ift AND zd ED1T1ONS. . AS the defign... | |
 | Goldfinch - 1782 - 318 pagine
...improve the hour that flies, And in foft raptures wafte the day Among the birks of Invermay. For foon the winter of the year, And age, life's winter, will appear ; At this thy lively bloom will fade, As that vvill ft rip the verdant (hade : Our tuft c of pleafure then is o'er,... | |
 | New vocal enchantress - 1788 - 344 pagine
...them improve the hour that flies, And in foft raptures wafte the day the birks of Endermay . For foon the winter of the year, And age, life's winter, will appear;. At this thy living bloom will fade, As that w ill ftrip the verdant fhade : Our tafte of pleafure then is o'er, The feather... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 404 pagine
...the hour that flies ; And, in foft; raptures, waftetheday, Among the fhades of Endermay . For foon the winter of the year, And age, life's winter, will appear : At this, thy living bloom muft fade; As that will ftrip the verdant ihade. Our tafte of pleafure then is o'er ; The feather'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pagine
...hour that flies; And, in foft raptures, wafte the day, Among the ftiades of Endermay. II. For foon the winter of the year, And age, life's winter, will appear : At this, thy living bloom mult fade ; As that will ftrip the verdant ihade. Our tafte of pleafure then is o'er; The feather'd... | |
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