...forth dame Nature's lays, You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own! What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind; By...

...her voice shall raise ? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ! What are you when the rose is blown .' So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind ; By...

...when the Moon shall rise} Yflu Violets, which first appear, By those your purple mantles known, Much like proud Virgins of the year, As if the Spring were all your own; What are you when the Rose is blown t You wandring chaunters of the wood, Who fill the eares with Nature's lays....

...when the suu doth rise ? Ye violets, that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, — What are you when the rose is blown ? Ye curious chauuters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's lays,...

...To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. KINO JOSN. D2 29 YE Violets, that first appear, By your purple mantles...year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the Rose is blown ? SIR H. WOTTON. LE VIOLE. NON di verdi giardin, ornati e colti, Del soave...

...her voice shall raise ? " You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? " So, when my mistress shall be seen, In form and beauty of her mind,...

...her voice shall raise ? " You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the rose is blown ? -•' So, when my mistress shall be seen, In form and beauty of her mind,...

...MARY ROBINSON. ON THE ROSE. YE violets, that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are ye when the Rose is blown ? SIR H. WOTTON. ON THE OPENED ROSE. OH mark those smiling tears, that swell The opened Rose : from...

...when the Moon* shall rise ? Ye violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the Rose is blown ? Ye curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth dame Nature's layes,...

...Violets that first appeare By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the yeare, As if the Spring were all your own ; What are ye, when the rose is blown ? To these lines, which, beautiful as they are, seem like a depreciation of our gentle friend, we have...