 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...There 's none but a madman will fling about ¿re, And tell you " 'Tis all but in sport." III. THE ROSE. How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are. iKginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - Readers - 1822 - 186 pages
...livelier hue, And the winter of sorrow but shows The truth of a friend such as you. Cotvper. THE ROSE. How fair is the Rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of June and July ; But its leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, In a day they both wither and die.... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1828 - 188 pages
...a glorious voice — For ever singing, as they shine, "The hand that made us is divine." THE RO6E. How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The...and May ; — But the leaves are beginning to fade hi mi hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast Above all... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...degraded doom, And wait till heaven's reviving light, Eternal spring, shall burst the gloom. THE ROSE. How fair is the rose! What a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ; But the leaves are begiuning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. et the rose has one powerful virtue... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...on the 25th of November 1748, having been prolonged to the advanced age of seventy-fire. [The Ruse.] s mercy bids thee go. For thou, ten thousand thousand years, Hast seen the 1 But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...their kings: From every chord his bolts are hurled, And vengeance smites the rebel world. THE ROSE. How fair is the rose! what a beautiful flower, The glory of April and May! But the leaves arc beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...richer in grace, And gives a sure hope at the end of his days Of rising in brighter array. THE ROSE. How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower, The glory of April and May! But the leaves arc beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue... | |
 | Wesleyan Methodist Sunday school department - Hymns, English - 1857 - 144 pages
...who fondly play Their important time away ? WATTS.} HYMN 213. f u. The Hose. HOW fair is the lose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ; But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hcur, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast Above all the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...richer in grace, Anil gives a suro hope at the end of his days Of rising in brighter array. THE ROSE. How fair is the rose! what a beautiful flower, The...of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning to fado in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Tot the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above... | |
 | John Slater (Florist.) - 1860 - 122 pages
...quite distinct. Selim (Becks) crimson purple, fine. Viola (Hoyle) very pale lilac, free. THE ROSE. " How fair is the Rose ! what a beautiful flower, The glory of April and May." Dn. WATTS. THE Rose is much cultivated both in Egypt and Syria, and grows wild in Palestine; and some... | |
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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! 
