| Anne Pratt - Botany - 1840 - 448 pages
...blossoms in the meadow. The Turks call it golden bowl. Herrick has beautifully apostrophised it : " We have short time to stay as you, We have as short...spring, As quick a growth to meet decay As you or any thing: We die As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer rain, Or, as the pearls of morning... | |
| Christian education - 1847 - 720 pages
...see the name of t& friend, Mr. TIMPSON, attached to the work as the ostensible Editor. MARCH. " Wt; have short time to stay as you, We have as short a...spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...the hasting day Has run But to the even song ; And having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you, We have as short...pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found again. THE NIGHT-PIECE.— TO JULIA. HER eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee ; And the... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...the hasting day Has run But to the even-song: And having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you ; We have as short...We die As your hours do ; and dry Away Like to the summer-rain, Or as the pearls of morning-dew. Ne'er to be found again. TO BLOSSOMS. FAIB pledges of... | |
| William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1842 - 422 pages
...time. The world is but a bubble. Men and daffodils, as the poet informs us, are the same things : — " We have short time to stay as you, We have as short...quick a growth to meet decay As you or anything." There's plenty more verses in that poem of Herrick's, but one hasn't tim« to quote them. Another poet,... | |
| Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...hastening day Has run But to the even-song ; And having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you ; We have as short...you or anything: " We die As your hours do, and dry Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to he found again. Away, JOHN MILTON,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...the even song ; And having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay aa place in any history of our uiffejriD- poetry that...and •Y'wraih* minute ; as the northern " makers," NIGHT-PIECE.— TO JULIA. HER eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee ; And the... | |
| Edward Jesse - Country life - 1844 - 432 pages
...hast'ning day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having pray'd together, we Will goe with you along ! We have short time to stay as you : We have as short...spring, As quick a growth to meet decay^ As you, or any thing: We die, As your hours doe ; and drie Away Like to the summer's raine, Or as the pearles... | |
| American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short...spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...hastening day Has run But to the even-song ; And having prayed together, we Will go with you along ! We have short time to stay as you ; We have as short...the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found again. -IlERRICK, 1648. THE SWEET-BRIER. OUR sweet autumnal western-scented wind Robs of its odours none so... | |
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