| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 sider
...to bid good-night? 'Tis pity nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave : And after they have shown their pride, Like you a while they glide Into the grave. TO DAFFODILS.... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 sider
...bid good night ? 'Twas pity nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave ; And after they have shown their pride, Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave. XXIII.... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 sider
...to bid good-night ? 'Tis pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er, so brave : And after they have shown their pride, Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave. $ 000.... | |
| Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 sider
...bid good-night ? 'Tis pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite ! But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave ; And after they have shown their pride Like you, a while they glide Into the grave. HERRICK,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 sider
...bid good-night ? 'Twas pity Nature brought ye forth, Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave ; And after they have shown their pride, Like you, awhile they glide Into the grave. The want... | |
| John Theodore Barker (schoolmaster.) - 1852 - 316 sider
...so fast ? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile, " But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave ; And after they have shown their pride, Like you awhile they glide Into the grave." HERRICK.... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 sider
...bid good night? 'Twas pitie nature brought yee forth Meerly to shew your worth, And lose yon quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'r so brave : And after they have shown their pride, Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave.... | |
| George William Curtis - 1852 - 216 sider
...bid good night 1 'T was pity nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, tho" ne'er so brave : And after they have shown their prido Like you, awhile, they slide LAKE GEORGE... | |
| George William Curtis - 1852 - 214 sider
...bid good night ? 'Twas pity nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, tho' ne'er so brave ; And after they have shown their pride Like you, awhile, they slide Into the grave."... | |
| 1853 - 560 sider
...bid good-night ? 'T was pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave : And after they have shown their pride, Like you awhile : They glide Into the grave. HEiinii;K.... | |
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