 SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die....  Lives of the English Sacred Poets - Página 275de Robert Aris Willmott - 1839Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John William Clayton - 1854 - 134 páginas
...shared, by Alia given, To lift from earth our low desire. Sweet day, so warm — so calm — so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. HERBERT. IT was seven in the morning of the 19th of November that, with... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 páginas
...than in the quaint words of the pious old George Herbert : — Sweet day, so cool, BO calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die ! Sweet rose ! whose hue, early and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 páginas
...heart that hath waxed old. WILLIAM MOTUEBIVELL, 1797-1^35. VIRTUE. Sweet day ! so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his... | |
 | 1855 - 458 páginas
...smoke that quick expires ; 'T is a bubble ; 't is a sigh ; VIRTUE. — George Herbert. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 páginas
...smoke that quick expires ; 'T is a bubble ; 't is a sigh ; VIRTUE. — George Herbert, SwEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 páginas
...a heart that hath waxed old. WILLIAM MOTHEEWELL, 1791-1885. VIRTUE. Sweet day ! so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 páginas
...declining sun, — sheds over all A pleasant, farewell smile — And so returns to God. BllTANT. 150 VIRTUE. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dews shall weep thy fall to-night — For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids... | |
 | 1856 - 390 páginas
...sweetness of versification, which he will find in that old writer. Here is a specimen. " Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall wrap thy fall to-night ; For tlwu mast die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer... | |
 | Charles Lanman - 1856 - 572 páginas
...good. It was just such a day as George Herbert has made immortal in the following words : " Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew will weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die." At my feet flowed the tranquil waters of 'the superb... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 208 páginas
...most difficult of tasks, to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. Wordsworth. Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dews shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids... | |
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