 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 páginas
...virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and its fine colors lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, Though they bloom and look gay like the rose ; But all our fond cares to preserve them is vain,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 360 páginas
...May! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. 2 Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers...are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! 3 So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, Though they bloom and look gay like the rose : But... | |
 | William M'Gavin (editor of The union school song garland) - 1862 - 82 páginas
...May! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field; When its leaves are all dead, and its fine colours lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield. So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 páginas
...May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and its fine colours lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...May! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wittier and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field; When its leaves are all dead, and its fine colors lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield! So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | Louisa Simonds - 1863 - 140 páginas
...one powerful virtue to boast Above oil the flow'rs of the field ! When its leaves nre all dead nnd fine colours are lost Still how sweet a perfume it will yield. I am sure that my readers, after they have heai'd of the death of Bessie will feel what a delightful... | |
 | 1864 - 422 páginas
...May; But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour And they wither and die in a day Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers...field ; When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours all lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield. So frail is the youth and the beauty of man, Tho'... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 210 páginas
...But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. 2. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers...are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! 3. So frail is the youth and the beauty of man, Though they bloom and look gay like a rose ; But... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...May! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and its fine colors lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield I So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | 1866 - 498 páginas
...May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the Rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers...When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are So frail is the youth and the beauty of man, Though they bloom and look gay like the Rose ; But all... | |
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How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die. in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, • Above all the flowers of the field : When... 
