 It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and...  Relfe brothers' model reading-books, in prose and verse, ed., with notes and ... - Pągina 159editat per - 1882Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 145 pągines
...verse, and, if there is thought in it, that thought will live, even though the rhythmic form perishes. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere ; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night ; It was the plant... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 789 pągines
...OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In hulk, doth make man was Ч That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind ? Eyes without feeling, feeling without si scar ^ A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, — It was the plant... | |
 | Edis Searle - 1871
...IX. A SATURDAY EVENING ................ 126 "rt APTPT3. ZTTTTL HETTY'S RESOLVE. CHAPTER I. AT HOME. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be ; Or standing like an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day Is fairer... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 160 pągines
...Farewell. The hopes of court; my hopes in heaven do dwell. \Exeunt. THE GOOD LIFE—LONG LlFE.-£en Jonson IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere ; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | Poems - 1872
...felt the pledge And sweetness of the farther shore. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. TT is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make men...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | 1872 - 696 pągines
...little farther from the earth, And nearer to the sky. 1636. GBOWTH, Trae. It is not growing like a trco er sere. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night ; It was the plant... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1877
...APPLICATIONS. I. They live long who live well, It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day IE fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night : It was the plant... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873
...Subject unto the sudden call of death. Boweman. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night ; It was the plant... | |
 | Little folk - 1873
...Mrs. Ifcinans. Г ©ctober THE NOBLE NATURE. ' Т is not growing like a tree ' In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day, is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 789 pągines
...NATUKE. IT is not growing like a troc In bulk, doth mi ki- man better be ; Or standing long an pak, hing me the way to live, It taught me how to die ! GEORGE P. M ;, Л lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, — It was the plant... | |
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