 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...circumstance That doth the pomp of life advance At the approach of death. W. Hablngton. 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:... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...tone of feeling by the interposition of the three following stanzas of Herbert's. VIRTUE. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy full to-uight ; For thou must die. * Sonnet IX. \ [The Synagogue, a collection of poems generally appended... | |
 | Oliver Alden Taylor - 1854 - 580 pages
...excepted, which •was somewhat intense) to which the poet has referred, when he said : — " ' Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew will weep thy fall at night, For thou must die.' " Still more beautiful was the evening ; the moon... | |
 | Timothy Alden Taylor - Christian biography - 1854 - 584 pages
...excepted, which was somewhat intense) to which the poet has referred, when he said : — " ' Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew-will weep thy fall at night, For thou must die.' " Still more beautiful was the evening ; the moon... | |
 | John William Clayton - Egypt - 1854 - 134 pages
...shared, by Alia given, To lift from earth our low desire. Sweet day, so warm — so calm — so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. HERBERT. IT was seven in the morning of the 19th of November that, with... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...than in the quaint words of the pious old George Herbert : — Sweet day, so cool, BO 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, early and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...heart that hath waxed old. WILLIAM MOTUEBIVELL, 1797-1^35. 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... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 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... | |
 | American poetry - 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... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 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... | |
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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.... 
