 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 oldal
...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...short measures life may perfect be. HYMN TO DIANA. T~\RINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 oldal
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. ON HIS BEING ARRIVED TOTHE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 oldal
...growing like a tree gj 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...small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measure life may perfect be. B. Jonson. CCIX. CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE. happy is he born and taught... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1866 - 174 oldal
...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...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauty see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. THE ROBIN'S TEMPERANCE SONG. TASKED a sweet... | |
 | William Martin - 1866 - 426 oldal
...hundred yeare, To fall a logge at last — dry, bald, and scare. z A lillie of a day, Is fairer farr, in May, Although it fall, and die that night, It was...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be, As in a painter's picture you may see ! THE DOWRY PICTURE. THE DOWRY PICTURE. NOW is the season of... | |
 | Belgravia - 1870 - 558 oldal
...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 it...that night : It was the plant and flower of light.' Coleridge did nothing, forsooth ! as Mr. Gladstone might say. Why, he wrote Christabcl; but for which... | |
 | John Harris - 1866 - 266 oldal
...prrowing like a trce In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing lonc an oak, thrce hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Althongh it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 oldal
...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...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. ' ' ' BBN JONSON. '. i TIME steals away like to a stream, And we glide hence away with him ; No sound... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 oldal
...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...Although it fall and die that night, — It was the plant of light. In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be. GEORGE... | |
 | Y. Masih - 1991 - 432 oldal
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be; Or standing long an oak three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere; A lily...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.9 Why? Because the lily of a day in the words of Keats is a thing of beauty and is a joy for ever... | |
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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. 
