 | English poets - 1790 - 264 sider
...fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet Vet the Rofe has one powerful virtue to boalt, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are loft, Still how fweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | 1794 - 954 sider
...to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rofe has one powerful virtue to boaft, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and line colours are Still how fweet a perfume it will yield ! [loft, So frail is th-' youth and the ber.uty... | |
 | William Mitford - 1804 - 462 sider
...nightlingale's fong | in the grove. Seattle. .Yet the rofe | has one powerful vir|tue to boaft Far above | all the flowers | of the field ; When its leaves | are all dead | and iti 1 6|lnrs all Iml, Still how fweet | a perfume | it will yield ! Defpair|ing beside | a clear ftr£am,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 410 sider
...leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerftd virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beanty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 sider
...April and May ! But the leaves are. iKginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above...flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and finecolours are tost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 574 sider
...are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. s Vet the Rote has onepowerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will y,. U ! 5 Sofrmilistheyouth and the beauty... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 sider
...April and May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above...flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colou: s are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! II. So frail is the youih and the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 236 sider
...are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. 2. Yet the rose has one pow'rful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field: When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours lost Still how sweet a perfume it will yield! 3. So frail is the youth and the beauty... | |
 | Albert Picket - 1819 - 258 sider
...beginning to fade in an hour, An(f they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful beauty to boast Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet the perfume it will yield. So frail is the youth, and the beauty... | |
 | 1820 - 422 sider
...autumn when the sun was going down.— N ote X to the Farmer's t.isiun, quoted in p. 86, et seq. P Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above...flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield! * The rose is a universal favourite,... | |
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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. 
