 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 pages
...Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison ; Her lips were red; and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly; But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them... | |
 | Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling - 1892 - 262 pages
...streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Catherine pear (The side that's next the sun). Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly) ; But (Dick) her eyes so guard her face ; I durst no more upon them... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1893 - 322 pages
...which were two rows of ivory, exactly answered Sir John Suckling's description in those lines : — Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin. Some bee had stung it newly. Her cheeks were of the oval kind ; and in her right she had a dimple,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1893 - 302 pages
...which were two rows of ivory, exactly answered Sir John Suckling's description in those lines : — Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin. Some bee had stung it newly. Her cheeks were of the oval kind ; and in her right she had a dimple,... | |
 | William Allingham - 1893 - 280 pages
...Suckling's famous Ballad on a Wedding, the most quoted lines are the description of the fair bride's mouth : Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin ; (Some Bee had stung it newly.) The poet's ' touch ' here is free, flowing, and vivacious, but... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1896 - 520 pages
...For streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Catherine pear The side that 's next the sun. Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly) ; But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face ; I durst no more upon them... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1894 - 588 pages
...For streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Cath'rine pear, The side that's next the sun. Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin; Some bee had stung it newly; But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them... | |
 | John Stephen Farmer - 1897 - 302 pages
...For streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Katherine Pear, The side that's next the Sun. Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her Chin; (Some Bee had stung it newly :) But (Dick) her Eyes so guard her Face, I durst no more upon them... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - 258 pages
...For streaks of red were mingled there Such as are on a Catherine pear, The side that 's next the sun. Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin, — (Some bee had stung it newly) : But, Dick ! her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon... | |
 | 1917 - 456 pages
...feared the light : But O she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly); But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face ; I durst no more upon them... | |
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Her lips were red, and one was thin, Compar'd to that was next her chin (Some bee had stung it newly ;) But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July. 
