 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 pages
...And go at last. What ! were ye born to be, An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night ? 'Tis pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth,...pride, Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave. $ 000. Lcelitia Elizabeth Landon, /^OME back, come back together, All ye fancies of the past, Ye days... | |
 | John Theodore Barker (schoolmaster.) - 1852 - 316 pages
...so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile, " But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon...pride, Like you awhile they glide Into the grave." HERRICK. Cherry. Fruit without bloom. Wild cherry. P. avium. — Flowers in umbels. Bird dierry. P.... | |
 | 644 pages
...brought ye forth, Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite ! But yon are lovely leaves, where we Hay read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er...pride, Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave. "What family is pledged never to inhale water ? — The Macintoshes. '•Lorn vro* THIS Picitrw, jMr... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...yon quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'r so brave : And after they have shown their pride, Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave. To Daffadils. Faire daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soone; As yet the early-rising sun... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night ? 'Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show...pride, Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave. THE NIGHT-PIECE.— TO JULIA. HER eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee ; And... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...last. BURNS. What, were ye born to be An hour or half s delight ; And so to bid good-night ? 'T was pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth,...pride, Like you awhile : They glide Into the grave. HEiinii;K. $JWtt. O LUVE will venture in where it daurna weel be seen, O luve will venture in where... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...And go at last. What ! were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good night ? 'Tis pity nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth,...pride Like you awhile, they glide Into the grave. THE SONG OF STEAM. It is a common remark that the startling realities of the present age have stifled... | |
 | Emily Percival - 1853 - 332 pages
...good night ? T was pity nature brought you forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But ye are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things...pride, Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave. HE was an old man twenty years ago ; and twenty added years have left but slight and scanty traces... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...ye born to be An hour and half's delight, And so to bid good-night ? 'Twas pity nature brought you forth, Merely to show your worth And lose you quite....pride, Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave. HEBEICK. 'We cannot conclude our April day more fitly than in the quaint words of the pious old George... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...delight, And so to bid good-night ? Tis pily nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, Aad lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we...pride, Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave. HOW THE HEART S-EASE FIRST CAME. Frolic virgins once these were, Over-loving, living here; Being here... | |
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Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave : And after they have shown their pride Like you, awhile, they glide Into... 
