...Wit and Beauty quit the plain, Past pleasures but enhance our pain, And life's not worth our care. PRESENTING TO A LADY A WHITE ROSE AND A RED, ON THE...in despair turn white. Let politicians idly prate, Their Babels build in vain ; As uncontrolable as Fate Imperial Love shall reign. Each haughty faction...

...HOUSE OF YORK, To his Mistress of the House of Lancaster, IF this fair rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom wear ; 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. THE PRISONER. Jin, Hope, seraphic heav'nly maid, Impart thy lenient power ! Oh ! swift descend, and...

...»rite to you, nor write in vain. RESENTING TO A LADY A WHITE ROSI AMD А ПЕВ OK THE TENTH OP JUNI. IF this pale rose offend your sight, It in your bosom...wear ; Twill blush to find itself less white, And tura Lancastrian there. But, Celia, should the red be chose, With gay vermilion bright; Twould sicken...

...LADY A WHITE K0.1I AKD A RKD «* THE TENTH OF JUNE. IF this pale rose offend your sight, It in yonr bosom wear ; 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. But, Cclia, should the red be chose, With gay vermilion bright; Twould sicken at each blush that glows,...

...gone, | Thy strings mine elegy shall thrill, My harp alone. TO A LADY, viithatahite anda red rase. If this pale rose offend your sight, It in your bosom...wear ; ' Twill blush to find itself less white, And change its colour there, But, Celia, should the red be ehose, With gay vermilion bright ; 'Twould sicken...

...Wit and Beauty quit the plain, Past pleasures but enhance our pain, And life's not worth our care. PRESENTING TO A LADY A , WHITE ROSE AND A RED, ON...should the red be chose, With gay vermilion bright, T would sicken at each blush that glows, And in despair turn white. Let politicians idly prate, Their...

...Rose being presented to a Lancastrian Lady : — If this fair rope offend thy sight, It in thy bonom wear . 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. The ' busy bee' still pursues his ceaseless task ef collecting his varied sweets to form the honey...

...The diction is, of course, modernized. If this fair rose offend thy sight, Plac'd on thy bosom bare, 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian — there. But if thy ruby lip it spy, And kiss it thou should'st deign, With envy pale, 'twill lose its dye, And...

...to a Lady of (A« House of Lancaster. If this fair rose offend thy sight, Placed on thy bosom bare, 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. But, if thy ruby lip it spy, And kiss it thou shouldst deign ; THE REPLY. Aminadab, with phiz demure, Knocked...

...attached to the house of Lancaster : IF this fair rose offend thy sight, Placed in thy bosom bare, 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. But if thy ruby lips it spy, As kiss it thou may'st deign. With envy pale 'twill lose its die, And Yorkshire...