 | English poets - 1790 - 264 pages
...fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet Vet the Rofe has one powerful virtue to boalt, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are loft, Still how fweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty of... | |
 | 1794 - 954 pages
...to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rofe has one powerful virtue to boaft, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and line colours are Still how fweet a perfume it will yield ! [loft, So frail is th-' youth and the ber.uty... | |
 | William Mitford - English language - 1804 - 462 pages
...nightlingale's fong | in the grove. Seattle. .Yet the rofe | has one powerful vir|tue to boaft Far above | all the flowers | of the field ; When its leaves | are all dead | and iti 1 6|lnrs all Iml, Still how fweet | a perfume | it will yield ! Defpair|ing beside | a clear ftr£am,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - English poetry - 1807 - 410 pages
...beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerftd virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beanty of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die. in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, • Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...iKginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and finecolours are tost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. s Vet the Rote has onepowerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will y,. U ! 5 Sofrmilistheyouth and the beauty of man,... | |
 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colou: s are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! II. So frail is the youih and the beauty... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1816 - 236 pages
...beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. 2. Yet the rose has one pow'rful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field: When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours lost Still how sweet a perfume it will yield! 3. So frail is the youth and the beauty of men,... | |
 | Albert Picket - Spellers - 1819 - 258 pages
...April and May : But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, An(f they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful beauty to boast Above...the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet the perfume it will yield. So frail is the youth, and the beauty... | |
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How fair is the Rose! what a beautiful flower. The glory of April and May! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. 
