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" THOU art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distrest And left of love, are crown'd. When once the lover's rose is dead Or laid aside forlorn, Then willow-garlands, 'bout the head, Bedew'd with tears, are... "
Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs - Page 100
by Thomas Percy - 1867 - 127 pages
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Select Poems from the Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human and Divine

Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 pages
...worth, " Conceiv'd with grief are, and with tears brought « forth." LXXXVlll. TO THE WILLOW TREE. THOU art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found ; Wherewith young men and maids ilistrest, And left of love, are crown'd. When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorn;...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1816 - 420 pages
...tell thee what,— To-morrow tltou shalt see Me wenre the Willow, after that To dye upon the tree. Thou art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherein yo nig men and maids distrest, And left of love, are crowned. When once ihe lover's rose is...
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Sylvan sketches; or, A companion to the park and the shrubbery, by the ...

Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...designates it as " The willow worn of forlorn paramours." Herrick thus addresses the Willow tree : ' " Thou art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found ; Wherewith young men and maids distrest, And left of love, are crowned. When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorn...
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The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports ...

William Hone - 1826 - 892 pages
...!' anil between Ever was • I'alamon, fair Palamon !' " Herrick thus addresses the willow-tree : " Thou art to all lost love the best, The; only true plant found ; Wherewith young men and maids distrest, And left of love, are crowned. " When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorn,...
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of ..., Volume 1

William Hone - 1830 - 878 pages
...!' and between Ever was ' Palamon, fair Palamon !' " Herrick thus addresses the willow-tree : " Thon art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found ; Wherewith young men and maids dutrest, And left of love, are crowned. " When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorn,...
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Knowledge for the People ...

John Timbs - 1832 - 362 pages
...the willow, after that To die upon the tree. Again, "To the WUlow Tree," in Herrick's Hesperidea: — Thou art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distreat, And left of love, are crown'd. When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorne,...
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A Garland of Love, Wreathed of Pleasant Flowers, Gathered in the Field of ...

Garland - 1836 - 246 pages
...briar will tell, He who plucks the sweets, shall prove Many thorns to be in love. TO THE WILLOW-TREE. THOU art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distrest, And left off love, are crown'd. When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorn,...
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The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America: Consisting of Literary Gems and ...

1845 - 614 pages
...plucks the sweets, shall prove Many thorns to be in love. * ROBERT HERRICX. TO THE WILLOW-TREE. Tnot7 art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distrest, And left off love, are crowned. When once the lover's rose is dead, Or laid aside forlorn,...
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Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr ..., Volume 1

John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...tawing often taken, Is then ascrib'd to such as are forsaken." The following, "To the Willow Tree," is in Herrick's Hesperides, p. 120 : — " Thou art...only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids, distrest And left of love, are crown'd. " When once the lover's rose is deaa, Or laid aside forlorne,...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 pages
...them. Which done, to still their wanton cries When quiet grown she'd seen them, TO THE WILLOW-TBEE. Thou art to all lost love the best The only true plant...young men and maids, distrust And left of love, are crowned. When once the lover's rose is dead Or laid aside forlorn, Then willow garlands 'bout the head,...
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