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" Gather the flowers, but spare the buds; Lest Flora, angry at thy crime, To kill her infants in their prime, Do quickly make th' example yours; And, ere we see, Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee. "
Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With ... - Page 120
by George Lillie Craik - 1845
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...a longer age endure. But O, young beauty of the woods, Whom Nature courts with fruits and flow'rs, Gather the flowers, but spare the buds ; Lest Flora,...we see, Nip, in the blossom, all our hopes in thee. BEEMUDAS. WHERE the remote Bermudas ride, In the oeean's bosom unespied ; From a small boat, that row'd...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...a longer age endure. But O, young beauty of the woods, Whom Nature courts with fruits and flow'rs, Gather the flowers, but spare the buds ; Lest Flora,...we see, Nip, in the blossom, all our hopes in thee. BERMUDAS. WHERE the remote Bermudas ride, In the oeean's bosom unespied ; From a small boat, that row'd...
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A Love Gift for ...

Love poetry - 1841 - 178 pages
...a longer age endure. But O, young beauty of the woods, Whom Nature courts with fruits and flow'rs, Gather the flowers, but spare the buds; Lest Flora,...kill her infants in their prime, Should quickly make th' example yours ; And ere we see, Nip, in the blossom, all our hopes in thee. MARVELL. ADONIS SLEEPING....
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1906 - 562 pages
...of Little TC,' has :But O, Young Beauty of the Woods ! Whom Nature courts with fruits and flowers, Gather the flowers, but spare the buds ! Lest Flora,...their prime, Should quickly make the example yours. I have occasionally heard country people pronounce pour as power, but unfortunately failed " to make...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...beauty of the woods, Whom Nature courts with fruits and flow'n, 100 Marvell. Gather the flowers, bat spare the buds ; Lest Flora, angry at thy crime To...we see, Nip, in the blossom, all our hopes in thee. Bermudas. Where the remote Bermudas ride, In the ocean's bosom unespied ; From a small boat, that row'd...
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The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With a Memoir of the Author

Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1857 - 420 pages
...longer age endure, • v. But O, young beauty of the woods, Whom nature courts with fruits and flowers, Gather the flowers, but spare the buds, Lest F'LORA,...we see, Nip, in the blossom, all our hopes in thee. TWO SONGS ON THE LORD FAUCONBERO, AND THE LADT MARY CROMWELL. CHORUS, ENDYMION, LUNA. CHORUS. THE astrologer's...
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The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With a Memoir of the Author

Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1857 - 408 pages
...woods, Whom nature courts with fruits and flowers, Gather the flowers, but spare the buds, Lest FLOUA, angry at thy crime To kill her infants in their prime....see, . Nip, in the blossom, all our hopes in thee. • TWO SONGS ON THE LORD FAUCONBKRG, AND THE LADY MARY CROMWELL. CHORUS, ENDYMION, LUNA. CHORUS. THE...
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The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With a Memoir of the Author

Andrew Marvell - English poetry - 1857 - 408 pages
...longer age endure, v. But O, young beauty of the woods, Whom nature courts with fruits and flowers, Gather the flowers, but spare the buds, Lest FLORA,...their prime, Should quickly make the example yours, ' TWO SONGS ON THE LORD FAUCONBERG, AND THE LADY MARY CROMWELL. CHORUS, ENDYMION, LUNA. CHORUS. THE...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic

Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...a longer age endure. But. O young beauty of the woods, Whom nature courts with fruits and flowers, Gather the flowers but spare the buds ; Lest Flora, angry at thy crime, To kill the infants in their prime, Should quickly make the example yours, And e'er we see, Nip, in the blossom,...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...fruits and flowers, i Charm itself, that is, delight itself. Gather the flowers, but spare the buds ; l Lest Flora, angry at thy crime To kill her infants...produced anything in the same style finer than these linos. But Marvel's more elaborate poetry is not confined to love songs and other such light exercises...
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