 SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die....  Christian Remembrancer: Or, The Churchman's Biblical, Ecclesiastical ... - Page 3041822Full view - About this book
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 pages
...dimeter in stanza after stanza: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and skie: The dew shall weep thy fall to night; For thou must die. 98 Since that metrical abbreviation has a solemn, lapidary force, we can see its influence on Newman's... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...blessings). FORM: Five-line stanza rhyming ababa, first and last lines trimeter, all others pentameter. Virtue Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The...of the earth and sky: The dew shall weep thy fall tonight; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye:... | |
 | Catharine Parr Traill - 1999 - 239 pages
...and shadows form a mingled pattern of trials and blessings. MEMORIES OF A MAY MORNING* "Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die." — Herbert' JUST such a day as holy as George Herbert describes above... | |
 | Liz Rosenberg - 2000 - 168 pages
...scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633) Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky: The dew shall weep thy fall tonight; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye:... | |
 | Carme Manuel, Paul S. Derrick - 2003 - 556 pages
...you feel you recognize his style, "and, as it were, his voice in an exceptional passage": Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright. The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep they fall tonight [...] Ironic to the core, Frost's voice fills even the dullest lines with adventure,... | |
 | Jeffrey Wainwright - 2004 - 248 pages
...George Herbert (1593-1633) also works with rhyme to shape his affirmations. This is the first stanza of 'Virtue': Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,...of the earth and sky: The dew shall weep thy fall tonight; For thou must die. The next two of the four ab ab quatrains employ different rhymes for the... | |
 | 李正栓, 吴晓梅 - 2004 - 264 pages
...traditional designs, which is open for the humblest and simplest person to enter. Virtue1 Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky: The dew shall weep thy fall tonight; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry " and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his... | |
 | Rolland Hein - 2004 - 142 pages
...life and nature, has a fitting summary in his poem "Virtue": Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so brightl The bridal of the earth and sky— The dew shall weep thy fall tonight; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe an eye,... | |
 | Marion Halligan - 2004 - 348 pages
...Sweet day, so calm, so fair, so bright The bridal of the earth and sky Elinor comes in: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky: The dew shall weep thy fall tonight; For thou must die. I thought I remembered For thou must die. Seems funny in a wedding poem.... | |
 | 张秀国 - 2005 - 288 pages
...art possible; makes literature, science, and even religion possible. " (J. Galsworthy) (9)Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall tonight; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose he angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,... | |
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