from The Bijou Literary Annual, 1828
author: By Unknown
source date: 1828
edition published: 20170606
availability: Freely available via a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

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?"