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
| 1841 - 228 páginas
...our prayers. GOODNESS IMPERISHABLE. HERBERT. XVII. SWEET Day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth and sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to night, For thou, alas ! must die. Sweet Rose ! in air whose odors wave, And color charms the eye ; Thy root is ever... | |
| 1841 - 580 páginas
...altered two words, and has published it as his own : 1. " Sweet day ! so calm, so pure, 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... | |
| George Herbert - 1842 - 400 páginas
...door, Not in his parlor ; banqueting the poor, — And, among those, his soul. Ufrtue. 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... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1842 - 410 páginas
...arms of love ! " END OF PART THE SECOND. STANZAS. " All things perish save virtue." " SWEET morn — 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 fragrance now I crave, To glad my sense... | |
| 1842 - 542 páginas
...; But all my company is as a weed ; Lord, place me in Thy concert, give one strain To my poor reed. VIRTUE. Sweet Day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The Bridal of the earth and sky, The dew must weep thy fall to-night, And thou must die : Sweet Rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bid the rash... | |
| Story-teller - 1843 - 324 páginas
...The subtle motions we forget the while. SIR JOHN DAVIES. 1570—1626. PERISHING BEAUTIES. 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. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593—1632. Time is the herald of Trueth, and Trueth... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...piety which gave a charm to his life and breathes through all his writings. Virtue. Sweet day ! во L/ `# T / B q :U:<è¢ Q Ka 0 w3nr yu dews shall weep thy full to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids... | |
| Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 páginas
...topics. I will not forbear, however, the presentation of a single additional instance : " 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." The beauty of this inconceivably beautiful thought, consists in representing... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 páginas
...lodging, those lines of Herbert will present themselves with peculiar force to his mind : ' Sweet day ! to cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky : The dews shall wei?p thy fall to-night, For thou must die." SJ (3) Herbeft Knonlca. *.'.)S. Markii. *S,... | |
| 1846 - 436 páginas
...'t is a sigh ; Be prepared, O man, to die ! 174 TO A SKYLARK. 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... | |
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