 | Tibullus - 1872 - Počet stránok 306
...to shine In all their own, their matchless loveliness? To thce such aids can add no charms : ah no I True love will aye disdain the artist's care. See ! the fair fields a thousand colours wear 172 Fairer in lone rock-clefts green arbutes rise, Fairer the streamlet wends its wandering way, Lovelier... | |
 | Sextus Propertius - 1875 - Počet stránok 320
...a slothful ear, My slighted words how bitterly ye'll rue ! TO CYNTHIA. Quid juvat ornato procedure, vita, capillo? WHY wear, my Life, when thou abroad...merit Castor's hand, Or Hilai'ra win her Pollux' love ; With no false glare Hippodamia drew Her Phrygian lord, to reign a foreign queen ; Her face no gems... | |
 | Sextus Propertius - 1875 - Počet stránok 664
...shine In all their o\Vn, their matchless loveliness ? To thee such aids can add no charms — ah, no I True love will aye disdain the artist's care. See...way, Lovelier bright pebbles gem their native bay, I Sweetlier song-birds trill artless melodies. Not so did Phoebe merit Castor's hand, Or Hilai'ra win... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - Počet stránok 496
...love will aye disdain the artist's care. See! the fair fields a thousand colors wear, And ivy sprays far best spontaneous grow. Fairer in lonely grots...way, Lovelier bright pebbles gem their native bay, And birds sing sweetlier artless melodies. TO TULLUS DEAR Tullus, now I'd gladly plow wild Adria's... | |
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Why deck thyself with gems and costly dress ? Why mar with trinkets Nature's form divine, And not allow thy beauties forth to shine In all their own, their matchless loveliness ? To thee such aids can add no charms — ah, no ! True love will aye disdain... 