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" We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ! As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again. "
The Golden Pomp: A Procession of English Lyrics from Surrey to Shirley - Page 109
edited by - 1895 - 382 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 205

1907 - 584 pages
...Et qu'aussitot que les voyons Un malheur tes dons nous enleve ' ; and contrast it with Herrick : ' Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.' Do not these lines sufficiently proclaim how original a translator can be ? But...
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Literary Hours; Or, Sketches Critical, Narrative, and Poetical, Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 572 pages
...of superior power, are friendly to the best interests of man. c " * To DAFFADILLS. Fair Daftadills, we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet the...hasting day Has run But to the Even-Song; And, having prayM together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We. have as short a...
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Select Poems from the Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human and Divine

Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 280 pages
...trim, Maids in time may ravish him ! Thus a dew of graces fall . On ye both ! Good-night to all ! CVH. TO DAFFODILS. FAIR daffodils, we weep to see You haste...Has not attain'd his noon : Stay, stay, Until the hast'ning day Has run But to the evensong ; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 5

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 440 pages
...Adorn'd this smoother mead. Like unthrifts, having spent Your stoek, and needy grown, TO MEADOWS. Fun daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet, the early-rising sun Has not attain'd its noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even song; And having pray'd together,...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 5

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 392 pages
...none but thee." Some of his descriptive pieces are characterized by the most exquisite moral pathos. To Daffodils. " Fair daffodils, we weep to see You...Has not attain'd his noon : Stay, stay, Until the hast'ning day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 9

1847 - 648 pages
...they glide, Into the grave. II. — TO DAFFODILS. FAIR daffodils, we weep to see You haste away too soon ; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain'd his noon : Stay, stay, Until the hastening day Has run But to the even-song ; And having pray'd together, we Will go with you along!...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...of " The Daffodil which comes before the Swallow dares." To Daffodils, from Hesperides, by Herrick. Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon : Stay, stay, Until the hastening day Has run But to the...
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Specimens of sacred and serious poetry, from Chaucer to the present day ...

John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...ne'er so brave : And after they have shown their pride, Like you, a while, they glide Into the grave. TO DAFFODILS. FAIR daffodils, we weep to see You haste...soon ; As yet, the early-rising sun Has not attain'd its noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even song; And having pray'd together,...
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The Common School Manual: A Regular and Connected Course of Elementary ...

Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1827 - 274 pages
...ra-nine ka-nme' con-ceit kon-sete' con-nect kdn-nekl READING. LESSON 6. To a knot of Da/odils. 1 . Fair Daffodils', we weep to see You haste away so soon^; — As yet', the early-rising sun', Has not attained his noonS 2. Stay, stay, untill the passing day', Has run but to the evening song^; And','...
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New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent British ..., Volume 1

New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...free Till nature yields her breath, Till Time becomes Eternity, And man is born in death ! MONTGOMERY. TO DAFFODILS. FAIR daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet the early rising sun Has not attain'd his noon : Stay, stay, But to the even song ; And, having pray'd...
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