 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
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 522 pàgines
...THE GARDEN. 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,...toils upbraid, While all the flowers and trees do clost To weave the garlands of repose ! Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence, thy sister... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 532 pàgines
...To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb, or Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently...toils upbraid, While all the flowers and trees do clow To weave the garlands of repose ! Fair Quiet, have I found thee And Innocence, thy sister dear?... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 pàgines
...That I might there present it — oh ! to whom ? PERCY i:-, ,— n - SHELLEY. THOUGHTS ix A GARDEN. 01 incessant labors see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow verged shade Does... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1901 - 388 pàgines
...waking dream ? Fled is that music : — Do I wake or sleep ? THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN By Andrew Maruell OW 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... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 pàgines
...example yours ; And ere we see, Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee. Thoughts in a Garden T_T 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 pàgines
...Had it lived long, it would have been LiHes without — roses within. A. Marvtll THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - 1903 - 166 pàgines
...The Garden How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, the bays ; And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb, or tree,...and trees do close, To weave the garlands of repose. Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence, thy sister dear ? Mistaken long, I sought you then... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1903 - 396 pàgines
...chime, With falling oars they kept the time. ANDREW MARVELL, MP The Garden. [MiictlLutia. 1681.] 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... | |
 | Alice Meynell - 1904 - 388 pàgines
...the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars. THE GARDEN Translated out of his own Latin 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... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1905 - 258 pàgines
...biographical value, I have quoted at, perhaps, too great length. Other poems of this garden-period of MarvelPs life are better known. His own English version of...and trees do close, To weave the garlands of Repose ! Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence, thy sister dear ? Mistaken long, I sought you... | |
| |
