 | 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... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 838 páginas
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better bo ; Or standing long on oak, three hundred year, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions wo just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. A s the years go on, there gathers... | |
 | 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...light ! In small proportions we just beauties see ; THE CHILD'S REVERIE. The idea, of the following lines was really expressed by a little boy five years... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...though not of lands ; And, having nothing, yet hath all. WOTTON. |n 8^ori nuasurw %'ilt mag pufetl be. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man 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... | |
 | Charles Stanford - 1861 - 430 páginas
...JACET DOMINVS JOSEPHVS ALLEINE HOLOCAVSTVM TAVNTONENSIS ET DEO ET VOBIS. An old 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... | |
 | 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...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauty see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. Jonson CLXXIII THE RAINBOW My heart leaps... | |
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter - 1862 - 308 páginas
...on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die. Ifra. Henums. Bm Jonsott It is not growing, like a tree, In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing like an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day Is fairer... | |
 | Johann Heinrich D. Zschokke - 1863 - 384 páginas
...strength of our manhood ; and thou wilt not cast us off in our age. Bless the Lord, O our souls. Amen. 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... | |
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A lily 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. 
