 | Peter Pindar - 1804 - 176 psl.
...MOUNTAIN DAISY. By love's simplicity betray'd, And guiltless trust, Till she, like thee, -all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd ; •Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, "Till billows rage, and gales blow hard,... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 psl.
...rural shade ! By love's simplicity 'betray'd, And guiltless trust, Till she, like thcc, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd ; Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 psl.
...simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd ! Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 psl.
...lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate, of artless Maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, lite thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 psl.
...lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share upteara thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless Maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid, Low i' the dust. Such is the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 psl.
...rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray 'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd ! Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 psl.
...the rural shade, By love's simplicity bctray'd, And guiltless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd is laid • Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd ! Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 psl.
...rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple Bard , On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd ! Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, i... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 psl.
...rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'H, : And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd ! Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, i... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 psl.
...the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd ! Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And... | |
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O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate... 
