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" When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. "
Five Minutes: Daily Readings of Poetry - Page 27
1883
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Flora Domestica: Or, The Portable Flower-garden : with Directions for the ...

Elizabeth Kent - 1825 - 516 pages
...live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses. Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath...But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unmoved, and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves ; sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...live; The canker'd blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath...buds discloses; But for their virtue only is their shew, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves—Sweet roses do not so, Of their...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath...youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truthLV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhime ; But...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath...made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, Wbeu that shall fade, my verse distills your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes,...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1832 - 406 pages
...masked bud di-closes ; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwooed, and unrespccted fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so :...When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LOTI. Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when...
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Gathered Flowers: Chiefly from the Works of the British Poets

1832 - 206 pages
...The cankered blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the Roses, — Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath...buds discloses ; But, for their virtue only is their shew, They live unwooed, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. — Sweet Roses do not so ; Of their...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 240 pages
...live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath...beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, by verse distills your truth. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

1833 - 240 pages
...live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath...made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, 62 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful...
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Woman: as she is, and as she should be

Woman - 1835 - 758 pages
...be a pretty fool, is preferred. — " 11 yu peu de femmcs dont le merlte dure plus que la Beauti *." But for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade ! SHAKSPEAKE. With young men, respect is ordinarily a mere farce, and overacted ; whatever they may...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 158

1835 - 742 pages
...MIT «. by tliy beauty tempting her to Hire, Thine, by thy beauty, beii.g false In me." Don. 41. " Beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth." Son. 54. " His beauty shall in these black lines be seen." Son. 63. " Ah ! wherefore with imperfection...
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