 THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright.  Dublin examination papers - Pàgina 386per Dublin city, univ - 1876Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1863 - 616 pàgines
...exemption to the lot of a savage warfare. CHAPTER XXXI. " The flower Ihat smdes to-day To-morrow dies ; AH that we wish to stay, Tempts and then flies ; What Is this world's delight 7— Lightning thut mocks the night, Brief even a,s brig hi." SHELLRY THE picture next presented by... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pàgines
...cedar in Libanus ; and as palm trees compassed they him round about. ECCLESIAST1CUS 356 MUTABILITY THE flower that smiles to-day to-morrow dies; all...tempts and then flies: what is this world's delight? lightning that mocks the night, brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is ! friendship too rare... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pàgines
...weave into his shame, which like ths dead Shronds me, the hopes that from his glory fled." MUTABILITY. THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies ; All...Lightning that mocks the night* Brief even as bright Virtne, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare ! Love, how it sells poor bliss For prond despair ! But... | |
 | 1855 - 394 pàgines
...e'er clung to child, He devotes to the blast The best, loveliest, and last Of his name ! MUTABILITY. THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies ; All...Tempts and then flies. What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare... | |
 | Henry Drury - 1865 - 424 pàgines
...ímproba ANTE canit cygnus quam fata extrema vocarint, 0 si fata Neam, quam canat, ante vocent. F. Vf. THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies ; All...Tempts, and then flies ; What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship, too rare... | |
 | Cheltenham College - 1867 - 362 pàgines
...bound Between the child and woman, And thoughts and feelings more profound And other years are coming. The flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies : All...Tempts and then flies : What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night Brief even as bright. BP Shelley. Sranslatfons. Idem Latirie rcddilum.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pàgines
...winter, with his wrathful nipping cold ; So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. Sh. H. vI. 2, iI. i. The flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow dies ; All...Tempts, and then flies : What is this world's delight ? Lightning, that mocks the night, Brief even, as bright. Shelley. When men once reach their autumn,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1868 - 328 pàgines
...lizards are. Children of a snnnier star, Spirits from beyond the moon, O, refnse the boon ! MUTABILITY. THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies ; All...Tempts and then flies : What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtne, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare... | |
 | Peter William Darnton - 1868 - 112 pàgines
...transitoriness of all earthly objects ; and poets — men of imagination — have sung of mutability, " The flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies, All...Tempts and then flies ; What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright." All this musical moralising upon change and... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1869 - 553 pàgines
...sex forms an exemption to the lot of a savage warfare, CHAPTER XXXI * The flower that smiles lo-day To-morrow dies ; All that we wish to stay, Tempts and then flies : What is this world's delight?Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright." SHELLEY. THE picture next presented... | |
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