 It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and...  The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Page 310by Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. rt C - FROM 1558 то 1625. Epitaph on the Countas of Pembroke. Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 460 pages
...better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. A LOVE SONG. O, do not wanton with those eyes, Lest I be sick with seeing; Nor cast them down, but... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. A LOVE SONG. O, do not wanton with those eyes, Lest I be sick with seeing ; Nor cast them down, but... | |
 | Phrenology - 1876 - 1000 pages
...be. Or standing like an oak, three hundred rear. To Rill a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A Illy of a day is fairer far in May ; Although It fall and...beauties see. And in short measures life may perfect be. —DUN. JONSOH. MEN do not make their homes unhappy because they have genius, bnt because they have... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...earth, And nearer to the sky. 1648. GROWTH. True IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men thout tomb. Out of a life of commotion, Tempest-swept Jonson. 1649. GROWTH IN GRACE : desired. Он, Jesus Christ, grow Thou in me, And all things else recede... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...and shining youth Age might but take the things Youth needed not ! W. Wordsworth * 67 * TRUE GROWTH IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...Although it fall and die that night — It was the planf and flower of Light ! In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life... | |
 | Lady Frances Parthenope Verney - Natural history - 1877 - 282 pages
...In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, six hundred year, To fall at last a log, dry, bald, and sere.— A lily of a day Is fairer...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." I : : 265 la: little life on THE LATJEEL BUSH: AN OLD-FASHIONED LOVE STOEY. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d. MY MOTHEE... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect bo. BEN JONSON. HONOR. SAY, what is Honor ? 'Tis the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 pages
...mark-man, safe and sure, Who still is right, and prays to be so still. George Herbert. THE PERFECT LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. Jonson, THE VIRTUOUS SOUL. 49 THE VIRTUOUS SOUL. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 332 pages
...mark-man, safe and sure, Who still is right, and prays to be so still. George Heritfrt. THE PERFECT LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth...Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that nightIt was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short... | |
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