 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1840 - 448 pages
...blossoms in the meadow. The Turks call it golden bowl. Herrick has beautifully apostrophised it : " We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a...We die As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer rain, Or, as the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found igain." The poet's narcissus (Narcissus... | |
 | Education - 1840 - 468 pages
...hasting day, Has run But to the even song ; And having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a...spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything. We die As your hours do, and dry Away ; Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...hasting day Has run But to the even song ; And having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a...spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning's... | |
 | Periodicals - 1840 - 274 pages
...And having prayed together, we Will go with you along ! We have short time to stay, aa you ; We hare as short a Spring, As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any tiling : We die As your hours do ; and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain, Or the pearls of morning... | |
 | Periodicals - 1840 - 272 pages
...Spring, As quick a growtli to meet decay We have short time to stay, as you { As you, or any thing: Wo die As your hours do; and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain, Or the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found again. In our warm shrubberies, lilacs, and laurustinuses,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...hasting day Has run But to the even song ; And having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We lly dignifies the poor negroes with the name of "...Sieainrt" He died on the same island, a victim to th anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...hasting day Has run But to the even-song: And having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you ; We have as short...spring, As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything: We die As your hours do ; and dry Away Like to the summer-rain, Or as the pearls of morning-dew.... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1842 - 392 pages
...The world is but a bubble. Men and daffodils, as the poet informs us, are the same things :— " We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring, As quick a growth to meet decay As you or anything." There's plenty more verses in that poem of Herrick's, but one hasn't time to quote them.... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...hastening day Has run But to the even-song ; And having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you ; We have as short...spring, As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything: " We die As your hours do, and dry Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning... | |
 | Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1858 - 450 pages
...hasting day Has run But to the even-song ! And having prayed togotherrwe Will go with you olung. We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring. Ae quick a breath to meet decay, As you or any thing. " We die As your hours do, and dry Away, Like... | |
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You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short... 
