 For while she makes her silk-worms beds With all the tender things I swear, Whilst all the house my passion reads In papers round her baby's hair, She may receive and own my flame; For though the strictest prudes should know it, She'll pass for a most...  The Little Book of Society Verse - Pagina 121922 - 355 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1797 - 454 pagine
...till she can spell. Iv. For, while she makes her silkworms beds, With all the tender things I swear. Whilst all the house my passion reads In papers round her baby's hair; v. She may receive and own my flame, For, tho* the strictest prudes should know it, * Mr. Prior was... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 520 pagine
...round her hahy's hair; v. She may receive and own my flame, For, tho' the strictest prndes should kuow it, She'll pass for a most virtuous dame, And I for an unhappy poet. VI. Then, too, alas ! when she shall tear The lines some younger rival sends, She'll give me leave... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 pagine
...spell. Tor, while she makes her silk-worms beds With all the tender things I swear ; Whilst all tht house my passion reads, In papers round her baby's hair; She may receive and own my flame, For, thoush the strictest prudes should know it She'll pass for a most virtuous dame, lien too, alas ! when... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pagine
...till she can spell. For, while she makes her silk-worms bed« With all the t'nder things 1 swear ; Whilst all the house my passion reads, In papers round her baby's hair; She may rec. ive and own my flame, For, thoujrh the strictest pn:<!< s should know it, She'll pass for a most... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 292 pagine
...for a most virtuous dame, And I, for an unhappy poet. Then, too, alas ! when she shall tear The lines some younger rival sends, She'll give me leave to...write, I fear, And we shall still continue friends. 1 This young lady is supposed to have been one of the Dorset family. For as our different ages move,... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1835 - 364 pagine
...write till she can spell. For, while she makes her silkworms beds With all the tender things I swear ; Whilst all the house my passion reads, In papers round...unhappy poet. Then too, alas ! when she shall tear The lines some younger rival sends; She'll give me leave to write, I fear, And we shall still continue... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 608 pagine
...children in 1704 : — ' For, while she makes her silkworms beds With all the tender things I swear ; Whilst all the house my passion reads In papers round...unhappy poet. Then, too, alas ! when she shall tear The lines some younger rival sends, She'll give me leave to write, I fear, And we shall still continue... | |
 | Matthew Prior, John Mitford - 1853 - 366 pagine
...write till she can spell. For, while she makes her silkworms beds With all the tender things I swear; Whilst all the house my passion reads, In papers round...unhappy poet. Then too, alas ! when she shall tear The lines some younger rival sends ; She'll give me leave to write, I fear, And we shall still continue... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1858 - 506 pagine
...the tender things I swear; Whilst all the house my passion reads, In papers round her baby hair; 5 She may receive and own my flame, For, though the strictest prudes should know it, She 1l pass for a most virtuous dame, And I for an unhappy poet. 6 Then too, alas! when she shall tear... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1858 - 500 pagine
...hair; 5 She may receive and own my flame, For, though the strictest prudes should know it, She 'll pass for a most virtuous dame, And I for an unhappy poet. 6 Then too, alas! when she shall tear The lines some younger rival sends ; She 'll give me leave to... | |
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