 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...Musing on falsehood, folly, vice, and wrong, And sighing for thy motley coat again. STANZAS. My lile to the skies. And now, farewell ! — Time, unrevoked,...I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To roe ! My life is like the autumn leaf That trembles iu the moon's pale ray ; Its bold is frail, its... | |
 | 1882 - 812 pages
...Youth comes but once, love only once, And May but once to thee ! ELIZABETH STUART PKKLPS. 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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...near thee ; Sing, — though I shall never hear thee. Go,foryet me. RICHARD HENRY WILDE. 1789-1847 My life is like the summer rose, That opens to the...evening close Is scattered on the ground — to die. J/j life is like the summer rote. KEBLE. — E VEKETT. 505 JOHN KEBLE. 1792-1866. The trivial round,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 618 pages
...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. LIFE. 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,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1905 - 216 pages
...suffered in life. — 19-23. agir »ergeben . . . feierlidjer : of. the stanza of Richard Henry Wilde : My life is like the summer rose That opens to the...waste to see, — But none shall weep a tear for me ! 32 6. .Cjnnblucrfer nfô ¿tüuftícr : what distinction do we make between artisan and artist ?... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - 1905 - 558 pages
...also Charles C. Jones's "Life, Labors, and Neglected Grave of Richard Henry Wilde"1 (1885).] STANZAS MY life is like the summer rose, That opens to the...rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night are shed, 1 From this pamphlet the following additional facts have been gleaned. Young Wilde went to Augusta... | |
 | Augustus White Long - 1905 - 380 pages
...of his life to the successful study and practice of the civil law. MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE MY life is like the summer rose, That opens to the...the ground — to die ! Yet on the rose's humble bed 5 The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept the waste to see — But none shall weep a tear... | |
 | George Frederic Viett - 1905 - 312 pages
...fields. D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON, in "The Philosophy of Sorrow." MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE. My life is like the summer rose, That opens to the...close, Is scattered on the ground — to die! Yet on that rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept the waste to see, — But... | |
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MY life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But 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 the waste to see, — But none shall... 
