 twould boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip. But all its chief delight was still On roses thus itself to fill, And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold : Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within.  Oliver Wendell Holmes: Poet, Littérateur, Scientist - Page 83by William Sloane Kennedy - 1883 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...On roses thus itself to fill ; And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold. beyond the purple grove, Haunt of Phyllis, queen of love! Gaudy as 0 help ! O help ! I see it faint, And dye as calmly as a saint. See how it weeps ! the tears do come,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...On roses thus itself to fill ; And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies eold. rld. Say, Muse, their names then known, who first, who li:ius'd fro 0 help ! O help ! I see it faint, And dye as ealmly as a saint. See how it weeps ! the tears do eome,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pages
...On roses thus itself to fill ; And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold. Had it lived long, it would have been . Lilies without, roses within. 0 help ! O help ! I see it faint, And dye as calmly as a saint. See how it weeps ! the tears do come,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pages
...On roses thus itself to fill ; And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold. Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within. 0 help ! O help ! I see it faint, And dye as calmly as a saint. See how it weeps ! the tears do come,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...On roses thus itself to fill ; And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold. Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within. Oh help ! oh help ! I see it faint, And die as calmly as a saint. See how it weeps ! the tears do come,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...still On roses thus itself to fill, And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold. Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within. YOUNG LOVE. COME, little infant, love me now, While thine unsuspected years Clear thine aged father's... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...On roses thus itself to fill, And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold. . Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within. * * * * Nothing can exceed the grace, the delicate prettiness of this little poem. There is a trippingness... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...On roses thus itself to fill ; And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold. Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within. O help ! O help ! I see it faint, And dye as calmly as a saint. See how it weeps ! the tears do come,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...still On roses thus itself to fill; In whitest sheets of lilies cold. And its pure virgin limbs to fold Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within. OWEN FELLTHAM. Died 1078. OF the personal history of Owen Felltham we know but very little. Even the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...On roses thus itself to fill ; And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold. Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within. OWEN FELLTHAM. Died 1678. OF the personal history of Owen Fellthnm we know but very little. Even the... | |
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