 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...Wither'* inserted by Percy in his Reliques* — the one beginning Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair ? Or make pale my cheeks with care...another's rosy are ? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May ; If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be ? — the other, entitled... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...I, WASTING IN DESPAIR. GROHOR WITHER, bom 1588, died 1667. SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair ? Or make pale my cheeks with care,...than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be? Should my heart be grieved or pined 'Cause I see a woman... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1854 - 402 pages
...poet Wither towards, or from the fair of his own species : " Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair ? ' Or make pale my cheeks with care,...than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May ; If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be! " Shall my foolish heart be pined, 'Cause I see a woman-... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...fools of them!* THE SHEPHERD'S RESOLUTION. SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair f Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's...Be she fairer than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in Slay ; If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be 1 Shall my foolish heart be pined, 'Cause... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...GEORGE WITHER. 1588-1667. The Shepherd's Resolution. Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman 's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's...than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?* " Shall I like a hermit dwell On a rock or in a cell,... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...in despaire, Dye, because a woman's faire ? Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosie are ? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May ; If she be not so to me, What care I how faire she be ? Shall my foolish heart be pin'd, 'Cause I see a woman... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair ? Or make pale my cheeks with care Because another's rosy are ? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I 'haw fair she be ? Should my heart be griev'd or pin'd 'Cause I see a... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1857 - 444 pages
...virtues move Me to perish for her love ? Or her well deservings, known, Make me quite forget my own ! Be she fairer than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May, It' she be not so to me, What care I how fair she he.' " While Lord Tipperary audibly hummed these... | |
 | Samuel Lover - Ballads, English - 1858 - 394 pages
...author of " The School for Scandal," however, can afford it. " Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair ? Or make pale my cheeks with care,...another's rosy are ? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May; If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be ?" MOLLY ASTORE.• From... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...dwell, And others joy, Farewell ! THE SHEPHERD'S RESOLUTION. Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair ? Or make pale my cheeks with care...another's rosy are ? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May ; If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be 2 Shall my foolish heart... | |
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SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be? 
