In vain their country's genius sought to move, With tender images of former love, Sad rising to their view, in all her charms, And weeping wooed them to her well-known arms.

I see that all are wanderers, gone astray Each in his own delusions; they are lost In chase of fancied happiness, still wooed And never won; dream after dream ensues,

Now, in good faith, Philip, this makes me smile, That I have wooed and won in so small while.

And they no sooner saw but wooed and lik'd: They have it sought to cross, and cross['d]

The legend of Ariadne tells that after being abandoned by Theseus, whom she loved with intense passion, she was wooed by Bacchus.

They must be stalked, and when at bay wooed with tender words and languishing glances.

Well may it lodge in meane and countrey homes Where povertie and labour keepes them downe, Short sleepes and hands made hard with Thuscan Woll, But never comes to great mens Pallaces Where ease and riches stirring thoughts beget, Provoking meates and surfet wines inflame; Where all there setting forth's but to be wooed, And wooed they would not be but to be wonne.

Well may it lodge in meane and countrey homes Where povertie and labour keepes them downe, Short sleepes and hands made hard with Thuscan Woll, But never comes to great mens Pallaces Where ease and riches stirring thoughts beget, Provoking meates and surfet wines inflame; Where all there setting forth's but to be wooed, And wooed they would not be but to be wonne.

The girls went to bed, but it was some time before they got to sleep, though finally the steady fall of rain wooed them to slumber.

Health was wooed by the Romans in groves of the laurel and myrtle.

She flies pursuit, she is shy, and wild, and timid, and will be best wooed by indirection.

Thus you were wooed in former days When maids were won by waiting; The modern lover finds it pays To imitate the forceful ways Of prehistoric mating.

~The Summer Girl.~ I wooed her in the summer months, When all the world was gay,

Shy Little Maid.~ A love-lorn lad wooed a coy maid once, All of a summer's day he plead; Oft he spoke of the bonds of lovethe dunce!

~The Cruel Maid.~ One summer night, in twilight dim, A fellow wooed a maiden prim.

Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higher Than his Casella, whom he wooed to sing, Met in the milder shades of Purgatory."

Of him whom goddess Ishtar warmly wooed, Of him whose breast with virtue was imbued.

As plain John Hammond I wooed and was rejected; as plain John Hammond I wooed and won; and the prize which I so won is a pearl above price.

As plain John Hammond I wooed and was rejected; as plain John Hammond I wooed and won; and the prize which I so won is a pearl above price.

While waiting at Bergen for the ship to be repaired, he wooed Anna with all the skill of an accomplished man of pleasure.

Beautiful, eager, he wooed her, and kissed off her tears as he hovered, Roving at will, as a bee, on the brows of a rock nymph-haunted, Garlanded over with vine, and acanthus, and clambering roses, Cool in the fierce still noon, where streams glance clear in the mossbeds, Hums on from blossom to blossom, and mingles the sweets as he tastes them.

The whole Assembly wondered at his Accomplishments, and bestowed the Ring on him unanimously; but, what he esteemed more than all the rest, a Country Wench, whom he had wooed in vain for above five Years before, was so charmed with his Grinns, and

To Golf on the downs for the whole of the day Is "so awfully jolly," they keep on asserting, With a good-looking fellow to teach you the way, And to fill up the time with some innocent flirting, And it may be the maiden is wooed and is won, Ere the whole of the round is completed and done.

Within this fairy world there is the truth Of Cain and Abel, of Rebecca's craft, Of Rachel, who by Jacob's service wooed How hight this maiden? GARCERAN.

*The Sleeping Beauty SO has she lain for centuries unguessed, Her waiting face to waiting heaven turned, While winds have wooed and ardent suns have burned And stars have died to sentinel her rest.