 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
 | George Herbert - 1838 - 406 pages
...door, Not in his parlour ; banqueting the poor, And among those his soul. LXIII. 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... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 400 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,... | |
 | Daniel D. Smith - 1836 - 244 pages
...calm, so bright, The bridal uf the earth and sky, Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night, For tbou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave,...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, Thy... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...curse of every evil deed, That, propagating still, it brings forth evil. COLERIDGE. 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... | |
 | George Herbert - Christian poetry, English - 1838 - 420 pages
...door, Not in his parlour; banqueting the poor, And among those his soul. LXIII. 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... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1838 - 546 pages
...Virtue" has been much admired : — VIRTUE. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of tke earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night...gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and rosea, A box where sweets compacted lie, My... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...it raise To be thy praise, * The poem on " Virtue " has been much admired:— 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 Bida the rash gazer wipe his eye,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1839 - 536 pages
...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... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1839 - 594 pages
...bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to night,— for than mutt die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids...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 - 1839 - 388 pages
...expressed his sense of the fleeting nature of earthly enjoyments, in his poem on 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,... | |
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