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 - Pągina 386per Dublin city, univ - 1876Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1885 - 470 pągines
...weave into his shame, which, like the dead Shrouds me, the hopes that from his glory fled." MUTABILITY. THE flower that smiles today Tomorrow dies : All that...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 how rare... | |
| Duchess - 1886 - 440 pągines
...word ' farewell.' There is a last embrace, a last lingering kiss. . . . All is over. CIIAPTER XXIX. The flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies ; All...Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. — SHELLEY. • ••••» AT Chetwoode they are all assembled in the drawingroom — except Archibald,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1887 - 730 pągines
...howl and rave, And April weeps — but, O, ye hours, Follow with May's fairest flowers. 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 how... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 332 pągines
...weave into his shame, which, like the dead Shrouds me, the hopes that from his glory fled." 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 how rare... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1888 - 524 pągines
...of our friends, tomorrow other friends visit ours. So the monks of La Trappe, after all, are wise. 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. When we entered Palma, and the lordly barouche... | |
| 1888 - 798 pągines
...all whose threatened sting Turns life to terror. — Byron. Hardly are we prepared to believe that 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."— Shettey. We prefer to dwell upon the springing... | |
| 1896 - 698 pągines
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| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1889 - 334 pągines
...— life." And in England we have had our Shelley and our Byron. ' ' 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." " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1889 - 532 pągines
...times, in which neither age nor sex lorms an exemption to the lot of a savage warfare. CHAPTER XXXI. "The flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow dies ; All that we wish to stay. Tempts nnd then flies ; What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright."... | |
| William Nicholas Willis - 1913 - 330 pągines
...man of coloured skin looks upon his sad pilgrimage through this planet as r The flower that smells to-day to-morrow dies, All that we wish to stay, tempts, and then flies. The Eastern men of our race drain all the pleasures and joys that are in life. You Westerners give... | |
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