 Since, if my plaints serve not to approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But from excess of duty. For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As all desire, but none deserve, A place in her affection, I...  Violet; or, The danseuse [by M.D. Malet]. - Stran 158avtor: lady Marianne Dora Malet - 1836Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 strani
...approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But fear t' exceed my duty. For not knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection...A place in her affection ; I rather choose to want relict, Than venture the revealing ; Where glory recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing.... | |
 | 1860 - 582 strani
...seem not to prove The conquest of thy beauty j It comes not from defect of loye, But from excess of duty. " For knowing that I sue to serve A saint of...none deserve A place in her affection, " I rather cliuse to want relief Than venture the revealing : — Where Glory recommends the grief, Despair deatroyes... | |
 | 1860 - 568 strani
...seem not to prove The conquest of thy beauty ; It comes not from defect of love, Bat from excess of duty. " For knowing that I sue to serve A saint of...none deserve A place in her affection, " I rather chuse to want relief Than venture the revealing : — Where Glory recommends the grief, Despair destroyes... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 392 strani
...plaints were not t' approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, 4 For not knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection...desire, but none deserve A place in her affection, 5 I rather choose to want relief Than venture the revealing; Where glory recommends the grief, Despair... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 396 strani
...sue to serve A saint of such perfection As all desire, but none deserve A place in her affection, 5 I rather choose to want relief Than venture the revealing;...recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing. 6 Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know,... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 strani
...not t' approve The conquest of thy beauty, It cornes not from defect of love, But fear t' exceed my duty. For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of...desire, but none deserve, A place in her affection, 1 rather choose to want relief, Than venture the revealing : Where glory recommends the grief, Despair... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 526 strani
...not t' approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But fear t' exceed my duty. For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of...desire, but none deserve, A place in her affection, Where glory recommends the grief. Despair disdains the healing ! Thus those desires that boil so high... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 560 strani
...conquest of thy beauty. It comes not from defect of love, But fear t' exceed my duty. For, knowing that 1 sue to serve A saint of such perfection. As all desire, but none deserve, A place in her affection, Where glory recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing ! Thus those desires that boil BO high... | |
 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - 1862 - 636 strani
...lines of a poem of his I found in Oldys ; he does not say to whom they are addressed. " But seeing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As all desire and none deserve A place in her affection ; 1 A Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, prefixed to his History... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 strani
...approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, But fear to exceed my duty. For not knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection...recommends the grief, Despair disdains the healing. Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty ; A beggar that is dumb, you know,... | |
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