SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky! The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.... The Book of Elizabethan Verse - Page 538edited by - 1908 - 823 pagesFull view - About this book
| Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to night, for thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and...gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, and thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie ; My... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...divine HERBERT:— Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright; The bridal of the earth and sky, Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet...gazer wipe his eye; Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet SPRING ! full of sweet days and roses; A box where sweets compacted lie; My... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 326 pages
...of feeling by the interposition of the three following stanzas of Herbert's. • / VIRTUE. Sweet day so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky : The dew shall weep thy fall to night, For them must dye ! Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 364 pages
...cpol, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to night, For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and...gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave ; And thou must die. Sweet spring ! full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie,... | |
| 1838 - 794 pages
...Take the following. VIRTUE. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright ; The bridal of the eaith and iky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must...die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rath gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou rnuit die. Sweet spring, full of sweet... | |
| Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...defaced by a vulgar expression or two, are, on the whole, both beautiful and polished. Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright ! The bridal of the earth...the rash gazer wipe his eye : Thy root is ever in the grave, — .And thou must die. Sweet spring ! full of sweet days and roses : A box where sweets... | |
| Books - 1821 - 400 pages
...defaced by a vulgar expression or two, are, on the whole, both beautiful and polished. Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright ! The bridal of the earth...the rash gazer wipe his eye : Thy root is ever in the grave, — And thou must die. Sweet spring ! full of sweet days and roses : A box where sweets... | |
| Books - 1821 - 398 pages
...defaced by a vulgar expression or two, are, on the whole, both beautiful and polished. Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright ! The bridal of the earth...the rash gazer wipe his eye : Thy root is ever in the grave, — And thou must die. Sweet spring ! full of sweet days and roses : A box where sweets... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821 - 402 pages
...defaced by a vulgar expression or two, are, on the whole, both beautiful and polished. Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright ! The bridal of the earth...hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his ey« : Thy root is ever in the grave, — And thou must die. Sweet spring ! full of sweet days and... | |
| Arminianism - 1839 - 1092 pages
...following short poem. The last verse is, I confess, very inferior to the former. VIRTUE. "Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth..."Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. Bids the r.ish gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever hi it* grave, And thou must die. " Sweet spring, full of... | |
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