 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...and roses, A box where sweets compaeted lie, Thy musick shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. I. D .. ....... o.,. iuuiwuoiiiy cnaraeterises... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. WHERE Death waits for us is uncertain : let... | |
 | George Herbert - Christian poetry, English - 1838 - 402 pages
...and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. LXIV. THE PEARL. MATT. XIII. I KNOW the ways... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...and roses, A hox where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. PEACE. SWEET peace, where dost thou dwell?... | |
 | Henry Neele - English poetry - 1839 - 264 pages
...roses, A box, where sweets compacted lie ; My Music shews you have your closes, And all must die ! Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber...powerful effort, ill directed. His Poetry, in all its faults and merits, is well illustrated by his engravings. There is much of what artists call good... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But, though the whole world turns to coal, Then chiefly lives. The last stanza sinks into affectation, but... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 760 pages
...roses ; A box, where sweets compacted lie ; My music shows ye have your closes : And all must die. ' Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.' These lines, altered and improved, may be... | |
 | 1841 - 580 pages
...shows you have your closes ; Aud all must die ! rr. " Only the good and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives ; But when the whole world turns to coal, Then chiefly lives !" LITERARY NOTICE. AH HISTOEICAL AND DESCEIPTIVE ACCOCNT OF ICELAND, GEEENLAND, AND THB FAEOE ISLANDS.... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 448 pages
...My music shows you have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives ; -But when the whole world turns to coal, Then chiefly lives." " That/' said Colonel Lennox, " is one of the rnanv exquisite little pieces of poetry which are to... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1842 - 532 pages
...roses, A box where sweets comparted lie ; My music shews you have your closes, — and all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber,...the whole world turns to coal, then chiefly lives. VEN. I thank you, good master, for your good direction for fly-fishing, and for the sweet enjoyment... | |
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... 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. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye... 
