 | Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 432 pages
...Ode on tbe Death of Sir H. Morison : — 275 " It is pot growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...д •tr POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In hulk, nd tremble und scar ^ A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, — It was the plant... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 268 pages
...art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. —BEN JONSON (1573— 1637). GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...COLERIDGE. 562 POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. cohPOEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. THE NOBLE NATURE. and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring...of truth and right, Ring in the common love of go full a log at last, dry, bald, and sear :, A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1872 - 494 pages
...applied prophetically to Falkland himself : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men 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,... | |
 | Book - 1872 - 326 pages
...perfection of life does not depend on its length : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men 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... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1877 - 452 pages
...2. APRIL, 1877. VOL. III. DIVERS TRUTHS WITH VARIED APPLICATIONS. I. They live long who live well, It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day IE fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night : It was the plant and flower of light. In... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...light ! To the Memory of my Moved Master, William Shakipenre, and hath left us. GOOD LIFE LONG LIFE. . IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 pages
...when it grows, and smella, I swear, Not of itself, but thee."— The Forest. GOOD LIFE : LONG LIFE. " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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... | |
 | Mr. Faversham, Mrs. Woodward, Author of Ellen Clinton - 1873 - 446 pages
...sufficiently apparent to call forth the wonder and admiration of every one except himself. CHAPTER XVIII. " It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall at last a log, dry, bald and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May." BEN JONSON. <{ FROM what... | |
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A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. 
