| John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...freedom is tasteless, and roving a pain. Through walks grown with woodbines, as often we stray, Around us our boys and girls frolic and play ; How pleasing...the wanton ones see, And borrow their looks from my Jesse and me. To try her sweet temper sometimes am I seen In revels all day with the nymphs of the... | |
| Robert Hartley Cromek - Ballads, Scots - 1810 - 260 pages
...The old verses to which it was sung, Thro' walks grown with woodbines, as often we stray, Around us our boys and girls frolic and play : How pleasing...the wanton ones see And borrow their looks from my Jessy and me. To try her sweet temper, oft times am I seen In revels all day with the nymphs on the... | |
| John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 508 pages
...beguiles, And meets me at night with compliance and smiles. What though on her cheek the rose loses its hue, Her ease and good humour bloom all the year through ; Time still as he flies brings encrease to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. Ye shepherds so... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...is tasteless, and roving a pain. Through walks, grown with woodbines, as often we stray. Around us our boys and girls frolic and play ; How pleasing their sport is the wanton ones seff And borrow their looks from iny Jesse and me. To try her sweet temper sometimes am I seen In revels... | |
| John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...beguiles, And meets me at night with compliance and smiles. What though on her cheek the rose loses its hue, Her ease and good humour bloom all the year through ; Time still.as he flies brings encrease to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her Ye shepherds... | |
| Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...is pain. Through walks grown with woodbines PS often we stray, Around us our boys and girls frolick and play : How pleasing their sport is, the wanton ones see, And borrow their looks from my Jessy and me. r 196 THE READER. Though painful my absence, my doubts she beguile^, And meets me at... | |
| Scottish songs - 1816 - 320 pages
...and roving a pain, That freedom, &c. Thro' walks, grown with woodbines, as often we stray, Around us our boys and girls frolic and play, How pleasing their...the wanton ones see, And borrow their looks from my Jessy and me. And borrow, &c. To try her sweet temper oft times am I seen In revels all day with the... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 276 pages
...freedom is tasteless, and roving a pain. Through walks grown with woodbines as often we stray, Around us our boys and girls frolic and play; How pleasing their...the wanton ones see, And borrow their looks from my Jesse and me. To try her sweet temper, sometimes am I seen In revels all day with the nymphs on the... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 286 pages
...freedom is tasteless, and roving a pain. Through walks grown with woodbines as often we stray, Around us our boys and girls frolic and play; How pleasing their sport is the wanton ones SIT, And borrow their looks from my Jesse and me. To try her sweet temper, sometimes am I seen In revels... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...grown with woodbines, as often we stray, Around us our boys and girls frolic und play : How pleasm» Jessy and me. To try her sweet temper, ofttimes am I seen, In revels all day, with the nymphs on the... | |
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