 | 1866 - 426 pages
...nor with more Regret beheld her drooping, than the bells Of lilies ; fairest lilies, not so fair ! Queen lilies ! and ye painted populace ! Who dwell...beauties bathe, And drink the sun ; which gives your cheeks to glow. And out^blush (mine excepted) ev'ry fair ; You gladlier grew, ambitious of her hand,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1866 - 574 pages
...nor with more Regret beheld her drooping, than the bells Of lilies ; fairest lilies, not so fair l Queen lilies ! and ye painted populace ! Who dwell...beauties bathe, And drink the sun ; which gives your cheeks to glow, And out-blush (mine excepted) ev'ry fair ; You gladlier grew, ambitious of her hand,... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 556 pages
...succour; nor with more Regret beheld her drooping than the bells Of lilies ; fairrst lilies not so fair. Queen lilies ! and ye painted populace Who dwell in fields, and lead ambrosial live»! In morn and evening dew your beauties bathe, And drink the sun, which gives your check« V... | |
 | Catholic literature - 1874 - 406 pages
...much of which comes from consumptive cows. Now has ever anybody heard of a consumptive coco'anut ? QUEEN lilies ! and ye painted populace Who dwell in fields, and lead ambrosial lives ; In morn and evening dew your beauties bathe, And drink the sun ; which gives your cheeks to glow, And outhlush... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...; nor with more Regret beheld her drooping, than the bells Of lilies ; fairest lilies, not so fair! shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below '"' He spoke ; the spirits from the soils desc evening dew, your beauties bathe, And drink the Sun; which gives your cheeks tc glow. And out-blush... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1879 - 624 pages
...nor with more Regret beheld her drooping, than the bells Of lilies ; fairest lilies, not so fair ! Queen lilies ! and ye painted populace ! Who dwell in fields, and lead ambrosial lives ; In mom and evening dew your beauties bathe, And drink the sun ; which gives your cheeks to glow, And out-blush... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1832 - 624 pages
...lesser wealth of invention. How beautiful, in mere diction, is that address to the flowers : — " Queen lilies, and ye painted populace, Who dwell in fields and lead ambrosial lives." So, too, how expressive the short simile, « like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines."... | |
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Deny'd his wonted succour; nor with more Regret beheld her drooping, than the bells Of lilies; fairest lilies, not so fair ! Queen lilies! and ye painted populace ! Who dwell in fields, and lead ambrosial lives... 
