 Stewart! There's not a flower that blooms in May That's half so fair as thou art. The flower it blaws, it fades and fa's, And art can ne'er renew it: But worth and truth eternal youth Will give to  Notes and Queries - Page 1261870Full view - About this book
 | Archibald R. Adamson - 1879 - 298 pages
...inscribed in the unmistakeable handwriting of the poet:—• " 0 lovely Polly Stewart, 0 charming Polly Stewart, There's not a flower that blooms in May That's half so fair as thou art." And on an adjoining one in the same manner : " Gin a body meet a body, Coming through the grain ; Gin... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1881 - 700 pages
...POLLY STEWART. TOKK—Ye're welcome, Charlie Stewart. O LOVELY Polly Stewart 0 charming Polly Stewart 1 There's not a flower that blooms in May That's half...it; But worth and truth eternal youth Will give to Polly Stewart. May he whose arm.-; shall fauld'thy eharms Possess a leal and true heart; To him be... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1881 - 582 pages
...as a laundress in her latter days. O LOVELY Polly Stewart! O charming Polly Stewart ! There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May That's half so fair as...ne'er renew it; But worth and truth eternal youth Will gie to Polly Stewart May he whose arms shall fauld thy charms Possess a leal and true heart ; To him... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1883 - 554 pages
...died under a cloud as recently as in 18.47, at Florence.] Tune—" Ve 're welcome, Charlie Stuart." THE flower it blaws, it fades and fa's, And art can...ne'er renew it; But worth and truth eternal youth Will gi'e to Polly Stewart. O lovely Polly Stewart! O charming Polly Stewart! There's ne'er a flower that... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 372 pages
...Polly Stewart ! 0 charming Polly Stewart! There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May That's half so lair as thou art. The flower it blaws, it fades and fa's,...ne'er renew it; But worth and truth eternal youth Will gie to Polly Stewart. May he whose arms shall fauld thy charms Possess a leal and true heart; To him... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1885 - 296 pages
...1812.] LOVELY POLLY STEWART. Chorus.—O lovely Polly Stewart, O charming Polly Stewart, There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May, That's half so fair as thou art! THE flower it blaws, it fades, it fa's, And art can ne'er renew it ; But worth and truth, eternal youth Will gie to Polly Stewart,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1886 - 468 pages
...(JOHNSON'S MUSEUM, 1796.) Chorus.—O lovely Polly Stewart, O charming Polly Stewart, There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May, That's half so fair as thou art! The flower it blaws, it fades, it fa's, And art can ne'er renew it; But worth and truth, eternal youth Will gie to Polly Stewart.... | |
 | 1886 - 506 pages
...scratched by the poet's own hand, are still the lines, “0 lovely Polly Stewart, 0 charming Polly Stewart, There's not a flower that blooms in May That's half so fair as thou art.” Leaving the Globe Inn, and passing up a narrow lane, often traversed by the poet when he was “na... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1886 - 524 pages
...poet's own hand, are still the lines, " 0 lovely Polly Stewart, 0 charming 1'olly Stewart. There's nota flower that blooms in May That's half so fair as thou art." Leaving the Globe Inn, and passirg up a narrow lane, often traversed by the poet when he was " na fou,... | |
 | J. B. Reid - 1889 - 584 pages
...Lap-dog. Now half-extinct your powers of song, . . Ib. That's half sae welcome's thou art. . On W. Stewart, There's not a flower that blooms in May, That's half so fair as thou art. . . S. Polly Stewart. That the first blow is ever half the battle ; Prologue at Th., D.. Twins monie... | |
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