 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 502edited by - 1907 - 823 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...all these fences and their whole array One cunning bosom-sill blows quite away. VIRTUE. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth...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... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...\\ordjlight. SONG. SWEET (lay, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, Sweet dews shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die. Sweet...gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must (lie. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My... | |
 | 1832 - 240 pages
...calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night — 186 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... | |
 | Theology - 1834 - 410 pages
...Robert Herrick. The figure in the last stanza is somewhat coarse, though expressive. VIRTUE. "Sweet day! so cool, so calm, so bright; The bridal of the earth...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... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Readers - 1833 - 286 pages
...EIGHTY-THIRD. The Temple. 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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 478 pages
...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...gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave. And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of meet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, , My... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 408 pages
...sense of the fleetingness of earthly loveliness is expressed in his poem on Virtue. 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 thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 360 pages
...tone of feeling by the interposition of the three following stanzas of Herbert's : VIRT0E. 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 dye ! Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 pages
...— Poor man ! thou searches! round To find out Death, but missest Life at hand. VIRTUE. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth...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,—... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...•••! "'it um;» ;.>>•; ,i . .- - - ;•• • -' ';• ' •••• • ' ''• SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright; : The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; — 9" !.,.,.,".. . (1 ,.i' .i *...).. ,-• For thou must. die»w ,• .t,'-^ f • i. >i: •-... | |
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