 | Robert Dodsley - English drama - 1825 - 428 pages
...to end are made. The plague full swift goes by. I am sick, I must die. . . Lord have mercy on us I Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour:...the air ; Queens have died young and fair. Dust hath clos'd Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us ! Strength stoops unto the grave:... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - Drama - 1858 - 270 pages
...to end are made ; The plague full swift goes by ; I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us ! " Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour...stoops unto the grave : Worms feed on Hector brave. Sworda may not fight with fate : Earth still holds ope her gate. Come, come, the hells do cry ; I am... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1902 - 884 pages
...meaning also there is nothing to stumble over, and find out what men lose who are not in love with Helen. Brightness falls from the air, Queens have died young and fair, Dust hath closed Helen's eye. I pick my examples at random, for I am writing where I have no books to turn the pages of, but one need... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - Amusements - 1863 - 274 pages
...to end are made ; The plague full swift goes by ; I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us ! " Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour...mercy on us ! " Strength stoops unto the grave : Worms fe«d on Hector brave. Swords may not fight with fate : Earth still holds ope her gate. Come, come,... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Ballads, English - 1866 - 240 pages
...plague full swift goes by : I am fick, I muft die. Lord, have mercy on us! Beauty is but a ftower, Which wrinkles will devour: Brightness falls from the air ; Queens have died young and fair: Duft hath closed Helens eye: I am fick, I muft die. [•S9*-l I. Strength ftoops unto the grave ; Worms... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1878 - 474 pages
...to have seen in the volume, especially on account of the third stanza, which runs as follows : — " Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour...eye ; I am sick ; I must die. Lord, have mercy on us ! " But, of course, in a collection made from so broad a field, it is impossible that every song which... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English drama - 1874 - 486 pages
...thing* to end are made. The plague full swift (joes by. I am side, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us ! Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour:...the air; Queens have died young and fair. Dust hath clos'd Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord, haw mercy on us .' Strength stoops into the grave... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - English drama - 1874 - 524 pages
...end are made. I AA '\ The plague full swift (joes by. I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us ! Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour...falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair. J)ust hath clos'd Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us ! Strength stoops into... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - English drama - 1874 - 482 pages
...thing.i to end are made. The plague full swift goes by. I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us ! Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour: Brightness falls from tlie air; Queens have died young and fair. Dust hath clos'd Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1875 - 662 pages
...the Weather ; cf. ante, p. 138, note 3. 1 See Summer's description of the exhaustion of the Thames. Beauty is but a .flower Which wrinkles will devour:...the air; Queens have died young and fair. Dust hath clos'd Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us! 23' displays — though its classical... | |
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Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour : Brightness falls from the air ; Queens have died young and fair ; Dust hath closed Helen's eye ; I am sick, I must die. 
