 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 páginas
...flow, From the sky at silent even For the morning's glorious show. HUMAN PEKFECTION. IB ra % nnsraIT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sore. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 páginas
...of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir ff. Wotlon THE NOBLE NATURE It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...that night— It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. LXXIV THE... | |
 | John Marshall Lowrie - 1861 - 294 páginas
...were fulfilled, "In sorrow shalt thou eat bread all the days of thy life." CHAPTER XXXV. 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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...better be ; Or standing like 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 it...that night — It was the plant and flower of Light ! In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. JONSON.... | |
 | 1861 - 228 páginas
...head from the top to the bottom? GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. EXTRACT FROM AN ODE PINDARIC. AUTHOR BORN 1754. A LILY of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it...die that night, It was the plant and flower of light ! In small proportions we just beauties see ; THE CHILD'S REVERIE. The idea, of the following lines... | |
 | 1861 - 236 páginas
...the top to the bottom ? GOOD LIFE, LONG LITE. EXTBACT FROM AN ODE PlNDARIO. AUTHOR BORN 1764. A LILT of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and...die that night, It was the plant and flower of light ! In small proportions. we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. 168 PICTURES... | |
 | Charles Stanford - 1861 - 430 páginas
...poet has said : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be. A lily of the day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light ; In small proportions we just beauties see, And in small measures life may perfeft be."* * Ben Jonson.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 páginas
...To the Memory of a Youth," after the long-standing oak says : — A lillie of a day Is fairer farre in May, Although it fall and die that night : — It was the plant and flower of light. The month has its blighted promises. Shakspeare has this line : Rough winds do shake the darling buds... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 páginas
...boy to man, from man to boy, would chop and change degree. Earl of Surrey CLXXII THE NOBLE NA TURE It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauty see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. Jonson CLXXIII... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 páginas
...song ; How long those blissful days be thine, Oh, land of peace and rest — how long P Griffin. LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...that night ; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Hen Jonson, MELROSE.... | |
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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... 
