 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 - Pągina 45per Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 241 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pągines
...remembers it, and thinks upon the suffering mariner! R. SOUTH EY H' IOO4 THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN • OW 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... | |
 | Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 pągines
...forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief. 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... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 pągines
...on earth ; but does, dissolving, run Into the glories of the almighty sun. THE GARDEN. (TRANSLATED.) 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... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 pągines
...on earth ; but docs, dissolving, run Into the glories of the almighty sun. THE GARDEN. (TRANSLATED.) How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours sec Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Docs... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pągines
...voice, For ever singing, as they shine, The hand that made us is divine. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. TT OW 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... | |
 | John Symons - 1872 - 188 pągines
...beautiful poem was written during his temporary durance from political activity : — 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 winged shado Does... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pągines
...cheerful note; And all the way, to guide their chime With falling oars they kept the time. 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... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 pągines
...misprint ' ulnns :' the American edition and its London reprint are lavish of commas. G. THE GARDEN.1 How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bayes ; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged... | |
 | Abraham Holroyd - 1873 - 228 pągines
...THE GARDEN. vainly men themselves amaze, w*n "le lmnn' tlie oak, ^1e bays, And their incessant labour see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose...and trees, do close, To weave the garlands of repose ! Fair Quiet, have I found tliee here ; And Innocence, thy sister dear ? Mistaken long, I sought you... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pągines
...without, roses within. The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn. THE ALL-SUFFICIENCY OF NATURE. 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... | |
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