My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground — to die ! Yet on the rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept the waste to see — But none shall... Notes and Queries - Página 851856Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Gibbes Barnwell - 1851 - 412 páginas
...after he has ceased to have an existence. MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE. BY HON. RICHARD HENRY WILDE. MY life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground to die. But on that rose's humble bed... | |
| Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 páginas
..."minor" cadences, throughout. The "movement" is "slow" — the "stress," prolonged and gentle "median,"] MY life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground — to die ! Yet on the rose's humble... | |
| 1871 - 360 páginas
...least preluding the choral joys of heaven, it is a breath of Heaven's health. Rev. y. W. Alexander. MY life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground — to die! My life is like the autumn... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 páginas
...heroie men, A eonseerated band ; Life is to them a ksttle-field, Their hearts a holy land. Türknt man, My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening elose, Is seatter'd on the ground — to die ! Vet on the rose's humble... | |
| Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 páginas
...of wo, which still our maidens keep.' THE LAMENT OF THE CAPTIVE.1 ' My life is like the summer-rose That opens to the morning sky, And ere the shades...humble bed The softest dews of night are shed, As though she wept such waste to see — But none shall drop a tear for me ! My life is like the autumn... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 páginas
...complain, Musing on falsehood, foil}', vice, and wrong, And sighing for thy motley coat again. STANZAS. My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close, Is scatter'd on the ground — to die ! Yet on the rose's humble... | |
| 1856 - 780 páginas
...almost equal force and beauty — said to have been written by a lady of our own city. WII.DE. — My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere tne shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground to die. Yet on that rose's humble bed,... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 páginas
...its originality and Mr. Wilde's authorship of it were established." MY life is like the summer-rose That opens to the morning sky, And ere the shades of evening close, Is scatter'd on the ground — to die ! Yet on that rose's humble bed The softest dews of night are shed,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 páginas
...ye deserts and ye caves ! My native land, good-night ! BYRON. LXXIV. — THE FATE OF THE FRIENDLESS. MY life is like the summer rose, That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground — to die ; Yet on that rose's humble... | |
| Howard Paul - 1857 - 144 páginas
...swear to leave thee, love, no more. MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE. RH \YIIDE. [Mutic by'an Amateur. My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground, to die ! Yet on the rose's humble... | |
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