The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...

The Salamanca Corpus: The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842)
No tree can wave his leafy head,
Nor lilies slumbering on their bed,
Nor fragrant roses blooming gay,
Nor morning flow’ret droop away,
But all have secret power to tell
A tale of friends, ah! lov’d too well.
Shun, shun the “matron sage and holy,”
Shun, shun such tearful melancholy!
Heed not the whisper of her sigh,
Nor meet the pathos of her eye,
Else shall the gayest scenes appear
Veil’d in a thin translucent tear.
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THE LILY’S TRIUMPH OVER THE ROSE.
THE Rose, I own, has many a charm
To win the partial eye;
Her sweets remain to glad the sense
E’en when her colours fly:
Just so good humour charms the heart,
After a face once fair
Parts with its bloom, and withering time
Has planted wrinkles there.
But should I ask from beauty’s store
A tint to gain the heart,
It should not be the blooming tinge
Which looks so like to art.
No; spread along the downy cheek
The tender Lily fair,
And soon the eye shall teach the heart
To find an interest there.
The bending form, the drooping head,
Shall dwell upon the mind,
And ever round the feelings strong
Some soft affection wind.
So Flora, once in pensive mood,
Pronounc’d the fix’d decree,
When passing many a flaunting flower,