 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 448 pages
...Until the grave increase onr cold. Uirtue. 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... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 530 pages
...Until the grave increase our cold. FitttW, 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 ! whoso hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever... | |
 | 1859 - 300 pages
...outstrip time's tardy pace, And heaven on earth be won. E. TAYLOB. %\t Soul's §tsnt|J nnfairing. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth...For thou, alas ! must die. Sweet rose ! in air whose odors wave, And color charms the eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou, alas ! must die. Sweet... | |
 | Cheshire Pastoral Association - 1859 - 566 pages
...sing thy praise In better songs on high. 657. c. M. II«BB«« The Soul's Beauty unfading. 1 SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth...weep thy fall to-night,. For thou, alas ! must die. 2 Sweet rose ! in air whose odors wave, And color charms the eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1920 - 388 pages
...three following stanzas of Herbert's. VIRTUE. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of th: 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... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1995 - 420 pages
...'Virtue,' begins with a most affecting verse: 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. This piece has been imitated by many succeeding poets, but not one has excelled the original;... | |
 | Derek Attridge - 1995 - 300 pages
...Here are the first and last stanzas: (14) 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. 4 Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives; But though the whole... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...lines trimeter, all others pentameter. Virtue 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: Thy root is ever... | |
 | Catharine Parr Traill - 1999 - 239 pages
...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 is this sweet May... | |
 | Liz Rosenberg - 2000 - 168 pages
...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: Thy root is ever... | |
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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.... 
