 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pages
...pacific spirit, of the Prince of Peace ! IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long, an oak, three hundred year, To fall...log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day la fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light !... | |
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter - 1855 - 342 pages
...better bo, Or standing like an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May; Although it...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measure life may perfect be. THE DESERTED HOUSE. Tennyson, Life... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...better be ! Or standing long an oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere ; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. JONSON. are not ©eat, tfjeg too but... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 pages
...three hundred yeare, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, ana scare A lillic of a day, Is fairer farre in May, Although it fall and die that night : — It was the plant and flower of light. In snch proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. Ode to the Memory... | |
 | 1856 - 372 pages
...three hundred yeare, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, ana seare A lillie of a day, Is fairer farre in May, Although it fall and die that night : — It was the plant and flower of light. In snch proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. Ode to the Memory... | |
 | Mary Kirby - 1857 - 396 pages
...growing like a tree In bulk ; doth make man better be ; Or standing long, an oak three hundred years, To fall a log at last— dry, bald, and sear : A lily...that night, It was the plant and flower of light. fttr % Sfomlg-suonb. THE PINE-APPLE AND THE "WILD PINES. THE third division* of the lilies is named... | |
 | 1857 - 448 pages
...In bulk — doth moke man better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log nt last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day, Is fairer...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. And I would appeal for the truth... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...in their ear. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak three hundred year, To fall...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. CAREW. THOMAS CAREW was born AD 1589,... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1858 - 262 pages
...A SHORT LIFE MAY BE A PERFECT ONE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...the plant and flower of light ! In small proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. BXH JOHSOH. THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE.... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 838 pages
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better bo ; Or standing long on oak, three hundred year, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. A s the years go on, there gathers a special radiance of eternal youth around some of the figures from... | |
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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. 
