 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 367edited by - 1899Full view - About this book
 | 1797 - 454 pages
...my flame to tell, Dear five years old befriends my passion^ And I may write till she can spell. Iv. For, while she makes her silkworms beds, With all...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 pages
...hefriends my passion, And I may write till she can spell. IV. For, w tile she makes her silkworms heds, With all the tender things I swear, Whilst all the house my passion reads 1n papers round her hahy's hair; v. She may receive and own my flame, For, tho' the strictest prndes... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pages
...may write 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 pages
...llame to tell ; Dear five year* old befriends my passion, And I may write till she can 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,... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1858 - 508 pages
...yet my flame to tell; Dear five years old befriends my passion, And I may write till she can spell. 4 For, while she makes her silkworms beds With all the...all the house my passion reads, In papers round her baby hair; 5 She may receive and own my flame, She 1l pass for a most virtuous dame, And I for an unhappy... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1858 - 506 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1865 - 736 pages
...my flame to tell ! Dear Five-years-old befriends my passion, And I may write — till she can spell. For, while she makes her silkworms' beds With all...virtuous dame, And I for an unhappy poet. Then too, alas 1 when she shall tear The lines some younger rival sends, She'll give me leave to write, I fear, And... | |
 | 1866 - 522 pages
...verses addressed to a little miss of five years old, he being then forty, has a stanza which tells how she makes her silkworms beds With all the tender things I swear, And all the house my passion reads, In papers round lier baby hair.J Whereunto a parallel passage iu... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 432 pages
...yet my flame to tell, Dear five-years-old befriends my passion, And I may write till she can spell. For, while she makes her silkworms' beds With all...unhappy poet. Then too, alas ! when she shall tear The rhymes some younger rival sends ; She'll give me leave to write, I fear, And we shall still continue... | |
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