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" Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time... "
Preface. A historical essay on the origin and progress of national song ... - Page 63
1783
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 26

English literature - 1764 - 796 pages
...loiter in v<in , Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain , Í • • • ' • How fair, and how fickle they be. • Alas ! from...end to my woes ? . : When I cannot endure to forget •. ,i The glance that undid my repofe. Yet time may diminish the p.iin : The flow'r, and the ihrub,...
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A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley].

Collection - English poetry - 1755 - 378 pages
...Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be. IV. Alas! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woei ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain:...
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A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley].

Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...Amid nymphs of an higher degree ; It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be, IV. Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end...undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain : The flow'r, and the fhrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain, In time may have comfort...
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A Collection of Poems ...

Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be. IV. Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end...undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain : The flow.r, and the fhrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain, In time may have comfort...
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The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: I. Elegies on ...

William Shenstone - 1764 - 376 pages
...undone ; Ye that witnefs the woes I endure, Let reafon inftruct you to mun What it cannot inftruct you to cure. Beware how ye loiter in vain Amid nymphs...undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain : The flow'r, and the fhrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain, In time may have comfort...
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The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: I. Elegies on ...

William Shenstone - 1764 - 386 pages
...faiile. Ye that witnefs the woes I endure, Let reafon inftruct you to fhun What it cannot inftruct you to cure. Beware how ye loiter in vain Amid nymphs...undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain : The flow'r, and the fhrub, and the tree, Which I rear'cl for her pleafure in vain, . In time may have comfort...
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The Works in Verse and Prose, Volume 1

William Shenstone - 1764 - 372 pages
...undone ; Ye that witnefs the woes I endure, Let reaibn inftruct you to mun What it cannot inftruct you to cure. Beware how ye loiter in vain Amid nymphs...forget The glance that undid my repofe. Yet time may diminim the pain : The flow'r, and the fhrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain,...
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The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: I. Elegies on ...

William Shenstone - 1764 - 376 pages
...Beware how ye loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, ^nd how fickle they be, . Alas ! from the day that we...forget The glance that undid my repofe. Yet time may diminim the pain : The flow'r, and the fhrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain,...
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A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley]. [2 other copies ...

Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be. IV. Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end...undid my repofe. Yet time may diminifh the pain : The flow'r, and the fhrub, and the tree,' "Which I rear'd for her pleafure in vain, In time may have comfort...
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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 4

Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 412 pages
...Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be. IV. Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end...endure to forget The glance that undid my repofe. J Yet Yet time may diminilh the pain : The flow'r, and the fhrub, and the tree,' Which I rear'd for...
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