 My life is like the autumn leaf That trembles in the moon's pale ray, Its hold is frail — its date is brief, Restless — and soon to pass away!  The Poets of America - Page 90edited by - 1840 - 284 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...powerful; it was frozen mercury becoming as caustic as redhot iron. MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE. My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But, ere the shades of evening close, IB scatter'd on the ground to die. Yet on that rose's humble bed The softest dews of night are shed,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...powerful; it was frozen mercury becoming as caustic as redhot iron. MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE. My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But, ere the shades of evening elose, Is seatter'd on the ground to dic. Yet on that rose's humble bed The softest dews of night are... | |
 | Henry Washington Hilliard - 1865 - 556 pages
...for a season to sojourn on earth and bring human passion under the dominion of Christian sentiment. " My life is like the summer rose That opens to the...evening close Is scattered on the ground — to die ! Yefc on the rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept the waste to see—... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...powerful; it was frozen mercury becoming as caustic as redhot iron. MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE. My life is like the summer rose That opens to the...morning sky, But, ere the shades of evening close, Is scattcr'd on the ground to die. Yet on that rose's humble bed The softest dews of night are shed, As... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...complain, llufir.g on falsehood, folly, vice, and wrong, And sighing for thy motley coat again. STANZAS. My life is like the summer rose That opens to the...morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close, Is scatter'd on the ground — to die! Yet on the rose's humble bod The sweetest dews of night are shed,... | |
 | Lucy Pauline Wright Hobart - Consolation - 1867 - 534 pages
...are guerdons There, more worth thy claiming, Far more than any that lure on earth. LIFE. . BBilbt. MY life is like the summer rose That opens to the...evening close. Is scattered on the ground to die! Yet ou the rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept the waste to see — But... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...or grief, Since, if my scent be good, I care not, if It be as short as yours. GEORGE HERBERT. LIFE. Cullen Bryant lwd The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept the waste to see, — But none shall weep a... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...pale horse. RICHARD HENRY WILDE. 1789-. (Manual, pp. 521,501.) 263. MY LIFE 1s 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 softest dews of night are shed, As if she wept such waste to see ; But none... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - Elocution - 1871 - 468 pages
...position in its ranks. He died, in 1847, a most edifying death, in the bosom of the Catholic Church, 1. MY life is like the Summer rose, That opens to the...evening close, Is scattered on the ground to die! Tet on the humble rose's bed, The sweetest dews of night are shed ; As if she wept the waste to see;... | |
 | Religion - 1871 - 360 pages
...least preluding the choral joys of heaven, it is a breath of Heaven's health. Rev. y. W. Alexander. MY life is like the summer rose That opens to the...evening close Is scattered on the ground — to die ! My life is like the autumn leaf That trembles in the moon's pale ray : Its hold is frail, its date... | |
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