 | 1851 - 496 páginas
...thee power to be, and use the same. BEN JONSON. BORX, 1574; DIED, 1637. THE GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better...light. In small proportions we just beauties see, Ami in short measures life may perfect be. HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER. HEAR me, O God ! A broken heart... | |
 | 1879 - 474 páginas
...and years merely, but in pure thoughts, and Christ-like activities. Old Ben Johnson sings : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...May ; Although it fall and die that night. It was a plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties sec, And in short measures life... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 páginas
...develop when they shall bow to the sceptre, and imbibe the pacific spirit, of the Prince of Peace ! IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day la fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter - 1855 - 342 páginas
...may fear to die. It is not growing, like a tree In bulk, doth make man better bo, Or standing like an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last,...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measure life may perfect be. THE DESERTED HOUSE. Tennyson, Life and thought have gone away, Side by... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 páginas
...be good, I care not if It be as short as yours. GEOBGE HEBBEBT. Elje ffioefo ltfe, ILong ILift. TT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. JONSON. are not ©eat, tfjeg too but SHeey. T EFT in her little room alone, *-* The Euler's child lay... | |
 | 1857 - 448 páginas
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log nt last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it...beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. And I would appeal for the truth of this to myself, and to my noble Lucius near me, one grown old to... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1858 - 282 páginas
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, . Although...proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures Kfe may perfect be. BEK JOKBOK. THE MOTHER'S SACELFICE. " WHAT shall I render Thee, Father Supreme,... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 páginas
...the senses here, And fall like sleep upon their eyes, Or music in their ear. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1858 - 262 páginas
...him, but he shall not return to me." — Second Book of Samuel. A SHORT LIFE MAY BE A PERFECT ONE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | 1859 - 926 páginas
...gives him a throw. SOUTH. A GATHERED LILY. "A lily of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it full and die that night, It was the plant and flower of...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." OUR little Lilian is dead. The unwelcome angel has for the first time darkened our door, quenched the... | |
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It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower... 
