 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 sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower...  A New Library of Poetry and Song - Página 662por William Cullen Bryant - 1877Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | W. K. - 1865 - 238 páginas
...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 May, Although it...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JON SON. Co tfr l&olp Cunttj'. O HOLY, blessed, glorious Trinity Of Persons, still one God... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 páginas
...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 May, Although it...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson SIN T ORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! .L ? Parents first season us :... | |
 | Life thoughts - 1865 - 196 páginas
...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 May, Although it...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. Silent Prayer. THREEFOLD are the prayers of man to God, and their efficacy is also... | |
 | Our life - 1865 - 234 páginas
...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 far in May ; Although it...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. THE HOARY HEAD A CROWN OF GLORY. WHILE we call old age the winter of our life, we must beware lest... | |
 | W. K. - 1865 - 260 páginas
...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 May, Although it...proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures liife may perfect be. BEN JON SON. tlje O HOLY, blessed, glorious Trinity Of Persons, still one God... | |
 | Belgravia - 1870 - 558 páginas
...to a rose of Provence. What says Ben Jonson ? ' It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...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... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 páginas
...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 May ; Although it...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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 páginas
...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 May, Although it...beauties see ; And in 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... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 páginas
...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 May, Although it...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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 420 páginas
...Jonson, Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison: — "It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...that night; It was the plant and flower of light." 105. The babble of childhood; pappo for pane, bread, and dindi for danari, money. Halliwell, Die. of... | |
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