[anon.], "From the Italian." in The Bijou; (London: William Pickering , 1828)
   
      
         
            
               The Bijou; 
               or Annual of Literature and the Arts
            
            compiled by William Fraser
            
            
               
                  William Pickering
               
               London
            
            1828
            
               
                  
               
            
         
      
      
         
            
               From the Italian
            
            
               By Unknown
            
            
               MY LILLA gave me yester morn
               A rose methinks in Eden born,
               And as she gave it, little elf,
               Blushed like another rose herself
               Then said I, full of tenderness,
               "Since this sweet rose I owe to you,
               "Dear girl, why may I not possess
               "The lovelier rose that gave it too?"