 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Vet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and its fine colors lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1890 - 640 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 its fine colors lost, Still how sweet a perfume it wih yield ! So frail is the youth, and the beauty... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Arbor Day - 1890 - 528 pages
...beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a da}'. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and its fine colors lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! THOUGHTS ON THE FOREST. WELCOME, pure... | |
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 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 its fine colors lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield! So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1893 - 560 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 its fine colors lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - English language - 1893 - 404 pages
...par | cel of verses the hawkers were hollowing. Wine the sov | ereign cordial of God and of man Far above | all the flowers ] of the field, When its leaves | are all dead | and its col | ours all lost. And while | a false nymph [ was his theme, A willow supported his head. The... | |
 | Abel S. Clark - American prose literature - 1894 - 304 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 its fine colors lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield. So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the Rose has one powerful virtue colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! t. ISAAC WATTS — T/ie Rote. 244 FLOWERS-ROSE.... | |
 | Frank D. Rogers - Jefferson County (N.Y.) - 1897 - 296 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 its fine colors lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield. So frail are 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. 
