 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
 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - 1862 - 678 strani
...perfection, As all desire and none deserve A place in her affection ; OP MRS. DELANT. I rather chuse to want relief Than venture the revealing, Where glory...recommends the grief Despair disdains the healing." The poem is called " The Silent Lover ;" the thought is prettily expreseed, and one likes every trifling... | |
 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - 1862 - 616 strani
...lines of a poem of his I found in Oldys ; he does not say to whom they are addressed. u 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... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1864 - 210 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...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,... | |
 | 1866 - 522 strani
...beauty ; It comes not from delect of love, But fear t' exceed my duty. JFor knowing that I sue to servo A saint of such perfection, As all desire, but none...Than venture the revealing ; Where glory recommends Despair disdains the healing. Silence in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty :... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 strani
...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...perfection, As all desire, but none deserve, A place in thy affection, I rather choose to want relief Than venture the revealing : Where glory recommends the... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1866 - 240 strani
...serve not to approve The conqueft of thy beauty, It comes not from defefl of love, But from excess of duty : For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection, As all defire, but none deserve, A place in her affeiJion, [1590 f] I rather choose to want relief, Than venture... | |
 | J. H. - 1867 - 860 strani
...my plaints were not t' approve The conquest of thy beauty, It comes not from defect of love, For not knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection...but none deserve A place in her affection. I rather chuse to want relief Than venture the revealing; Where glory recommends the grief, Despair disdains... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 strani
...seem not to prove 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, bnt none deserve, A place in her affection, I rather choose to want relief Than venture the revealing... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Henry Wotton - 1870 - 322 strani
...The piece has been claimed on inferior evidence for Lord Pembroke, Sir R. Aytoun, and Lord Walden. For, knowing that I sue to serve A saint of such perfection,...revealing; Where glory recommends the grief, Despair distrusts the healing. Thus those desires that aim too high For any mortal lover, When reason cannot... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 strani
...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...perfection, As all desire, but none deserve, A place in thy affection, I rather choose to want relief Than venture the revealing: Where glory recommends the... | |
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