 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,...a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I da I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1993 - 360 pages
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 | 1974 - 872 pages
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 | Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - 1995 - 544 pages
...today he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,...a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. The civilized world seems, we have said, to be struggling in its death throes; not yet is "the strong... | |
 | Arthur Sherbo - 1995 - 224 pages
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Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing... 
