 My life is like the autumn leaf That trembles in the moon's pale ray, Its hold is frail — its date is brief, Restless — and soon to pass away!  The Poets of America - Page 90edited by - 1840 - 284 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Bar Association - 1883 - 1094 pages
...whenever we read his exquisite verses, as sweet and plaintive as anything that language has produced : " My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning »ky, But ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered o'er the ground to die." I would also gladly... | |
 | Albert Ellery Berg - 1884 - 826 pages
...Youth comes but once, love only once, And May but once to thee ! ELIZABETH STUART PHKLFS. STANZAS. My life is like the summer rose That opens to the...scattered on the ground — to die ! Yet on the rose's humbled bed The sweetest dews of night are shed. As if she wept the waste to see, — But none shall... | |
 | Joseph Hirst Lupton - 1885 - 252 pages
..."happy havens," being spondaic, were more fitted for the hexameter. So with the others. EXERCISE XLVIII. MY life is like the summer rose, That opens to the...morning sky, But, ere the shades of evening close, Is scatter'd on the ground to die. But on that rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night are shed,... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...plumage to his wings? WILLIAM ROBERT SPENOTR. THE ROYAL GALLERY. MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE. JY life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning...on the ground — to die ! Yet on the rose's humble hed The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept the waste to see, — But noue shall weep a... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 1044 pages
..."stanzas," in those days, unless, indeed, he wrote a " Conquest of Canaan," a " Columbiad," or a " Hadad " : My life is like the summer rose That opens to the...evening close Is scattered on the ground — to die 1 Yet on the rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept the waste to see... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1888 - 476 pages
...indeed, he wrote a "Conquest of Canaan," a " Columbiad," or a " Hadad " : D- uju tir-u T • u 1789-1847. My life is like the summer rose That opens to the...ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground—to die ! Yet on the rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...STANZAS. {Inscribed to Ellen Adair—Mrs. White-Beatty—Daitghter of 6m. John Adair, of Kentucky.] MY life is like the summer rose, That opens to the...But, ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered ou the ground — to die ! Yet ou the rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night arc shed, As if... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 pages
...anguish the heartless shall learn, That God deals the blow for the mitherless bairn. WILLIAM THOM. Mr life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning...on the rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night arc shed, As if she wept the waste to see, — But none shall weep a tear for me ! My life is like... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 482 pages
...by the name of Jem Crow ! RICHARD HENRY WILDE. [USA, 1789 - 1847.] MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE. MY life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close IB scattered on the ground — to die. Yet on the rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night are... | |
 | Karl Knortz - 1891 - 518 pages
...raeiteren 33emeríung über bae SBilbe'fdhc ©cbiájt, bringen luir baffelbe hier juin Slbbrudt. „My Hfe is like the summer rose, That opens to the morning...evening close, Is scattered on the ground — to die: But, on the rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night are shed; As if she wept such waste to see:... | |
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