 But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing; Beauty, strength, youth are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees; And, lovers...  London Society - Page 1521888Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 462 pages
...spurned, But spurned in vain : youth waneth by increasing. Beanty, strength, youth, are flowers hut fading seen. Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. " His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' son^s be turned to holy psalms ; A man at arms must now serve... | |
 | Robert Greene, George Peele - English drama - 1883 - 652 pages
...too swift, 0 swiftness never ceasing ! His yonth 'gainst time aud age hath ever spurn'd, But spurn'd in vain ; youth waneth by increasing : Beauty, strength,...are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roote, and ever green. • Wo have seen (p. (67) that Segar has thin Sonnet with several TariAtions... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1884 - 572 pages
...turned ; 0 Time too swift, 0 swiftness never ceasing ! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spumed, But spurned in vain ; youth waneth by increasing....faith, love, are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms ; A man at arms must now serve... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 440 pages
...too swift, O swiftness never ceasing ! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spumed in vain : youth waneth by increasing. Beauty, strength,...faith, love, are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms ; A man at arms must now serve... | |
 | George Saintsbury - England - 1887 - 530 pages
...to silver turned ; O time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing ! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain ; youth waneth by...love, are roots, and ever green. " His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turned to holy psalms ; A man-at-arms must now serve... | |
 | George Peele - Drama - 1887 - 300 pages
...never ceasing ! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain ; youth vvaneth by increasing : Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers...faith, love, are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And, lovers' sonnets turned to holy psalms, A man-at-arms must now serve... | |
 | George Peele - 1888 - 462 pages
...too swift, O swiftness never ceasing ! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurn'd, But spurn'd in vain ; youth waneth by increasing : Beauty, strength,...faith, love, are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And, lovers' sonnets turn'd to holy psalms, A man-at-arms must now serve... | |
 | Theodore Martin - 1888 - 90 pages
...to silver turned; O Time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing ! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain: youth waneth by...increasing; Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seeme ; Duty, faith, love, are roots and ever greene. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - Ballads, English - 1889 - 288 pages
...to silver turned ; O time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing ! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain ; youth waneth by...faith, love, are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And, lovers' sonnets turned to holy psalms, A man-at-arms must now serve... | |
 | K. L. Armstrong - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 460 pages
...to silver turned, O time too swift ! O swiftness never ceasing I His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by...seen, Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.— Lord Bacon. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. When wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes... | |
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