 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...to the warm and fervent piety which gave a charm to his life and breathes through all his writings. Virtue, Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dews shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dews shall weep thy fall to-night ; For i In ni must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave,...ever in its grave ; And thou must die. Sweet spring I full of sweet days and roses ; A box where sweets compacted lie ; Thy music show« ye have your closes... | |
 | George Herbert - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 382 pages
...ev'ry man may revel at his door,219 Not in his parlor; banqueting the poor, And among those his soul. VIRTUE Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The...For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave220 3 Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye: Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...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...eye : Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must dye! Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A nest, where sweets compacted lie: My musick shews,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1969 - 1278 pages
...in the world of the mere Sight — as the Text — (p. 50) Il.al "This verse marks that?"2 9A i 80 | Virtue Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The...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:... | |
 | George Herbert - Poetry - 1991 - 500 pages
...man may revel at his door, Not in his parlour; banqueting the poor, And among those his soul. Virtue The dew shall weep thy fall tonight; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave 5 Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye: Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring,... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...cool, so calm, so bright, The bridall of the earth and skie: The dew shall weep thy fall to night; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and...grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie; My musick shows ye have your closes, And all must... | |
 | Derek Attridge - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 300 pages
...rhythmic units while contradicting their message. Here are the first and last stanzas: (14) Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright. The bridal of the earth...dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die. 4 Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives; But though the whole world turn... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...disappointment in the reader to find a poem on 'Virtue' opening with the perfect stanza: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep they fall to-night; For thou must die; and concluding with this: Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like... | |
 | Tom Kirkwood - Science - 2001 - 288 pages
...long as my quality of life is good and I can look forward to each new day. CHAPTER 3 What's in a name? Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash...Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. George Herbert, Virtue' So Mr Hoddle died of old age? No doubt the nurse was right, but I doubt if... | |
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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. 
