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
| 1855 - 458 pages
...smoke that quick expires ; 'T is a bubble ; 't is a sigh ; VIRTUE. — George Herbert. 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... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night — For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. Bids the rash gazer wipe his ej'e ; Thy root is ever in the grave — And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pages
...a heart that hath waxed old. WILLIAM MOTHEEWELL, 1791-1885. VIRTUE. Sweet day ! 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... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...declining sun, — sheds over all A pleasant, farewell smile — And so returns to God. BllTANT. 150 VIRTUE. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dews shall weep thy fall to-night — For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids... | |
| 1856 - 390 pages
...sweetness of versification, which he will find in that old writer. Here is a specimen. " Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall wrap thy fall to-night ; For tlwu mast die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer... | |
| Charles Lanman - 1856 - 572 pages
...good. It was just such a day as George Herbert has made immortal in the following words : " Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew will weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die." At my feet flowed the tranquil waters of 'the superb... | |
| Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 208 pages
...most difficult of tasks, to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. Wordsworth. Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dews shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and brave, Bids... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...stood void ; her bills make known, She must be dearly let, or let alone. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632. Virtue. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and skies. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives. The Answer.... | |
| George Herbert - 1856 - 276 pages
...among those his soul. WEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, i\The bridall of the earth and skie : / The dew shall weep thy fall to night ; For thou must die. I 1 I Sweet rose, whose hue angrie and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in... | |
| Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...way, can be more pleasing than the sweet moralizing in what are perhaps his best-known lines, — on virtue ? — " Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,...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... | |
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