 How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid, While all the flowers and trees do close...  Andrew Marvell - Pàgina 45per Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 241 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 364 pàgines
...palm, the oak, or bays! And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb or tree, AVhose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their...trees do close,, To weave the garlands of repose. 2 Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence, thy sister dear? Mistaken long, I sought you then... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 370 pàgines
...created, like thy theme, sublime, In number, weight, and measure, needs not rhyme. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. 1 How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays ! And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does... | |
 | Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner - 1860 - 528 pàgines
...notice; and began, without doubt, the prettiest description of a garden that ever was written ; — " How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays:" — etc. The reader paused a moment, to tell more particularly what these leafy honours were, and then... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pàgines
...Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again. R. Herrick THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does... | |
 | 1890 - 366 pàgines
...Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again. R. Herrick CXI THOUGHTS IX A GARDEN 1 low vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does... | |
 | 1863 - 478 pàgines
...caused it to be supposed that he was poisoned. His pneins show him to have been a good and amiable man.) How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pàgines
...which caused it to be supposed that he was poisoned. His show him to have been a good and amiable man.) How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shatk.... | |
 | 1863 - 362 pàgines
...it to be supposed that he was poisoned. Hi.-, poems show him to have been a. good and amiable man.] How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 120 pàgines
...And I shout like the tempest, loud and free, Hurrah ! for the wild, wild Cherry-tree ! THE GARDEN. How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labors see Crowned from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pàgines
...at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. fllarocll. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. TTOW vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does... | |
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