 | William Allingham - 1873 - 764 pagina’s
...imagery, like that of Milton in ' Lycidas ; ' it was his way of seeing things : — So when you and I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade ; All love, all liking, all delight, Lie drown'd with us in endlesse night, &c. This is the felicity he truly aims at : I'll feare no earthly... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1876 - 490 pagina’s
...away as do's the Sunne : And as a vapour, or a drop of raine Once lost, can ne'r be found againe : So when or you or I are made A fable, song,. or fleeting shade ; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endlesse night.8 Then while time serves, and we are but decaying ; Come, my Corinna,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pagina’s
...take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die, Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun ; And as a vapor, or a drop of rain, Once lost, can ne'er be found again, So when or you or I are made A fable,... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1877 - 244 pagina’s
...take the harmless folly of the time ! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short ; and our days run As fast away...fleeting shade ; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endless night. — Then while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1877 - 240 pagina’s
...take the harmless folly of the time ! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short ; and our days run As fast away...fleeting shade ; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endless night. —Then while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1877 - 120 pagina’s
...take the harmless folly of the time ! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short ; and our days run As fast away as does the sun : — And as a vapor, or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again : So when or you or I are made A fable,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pagina’s
...know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun ; And as a vapor, or a drop of rain, Once lost, can ne'er be found again, So when or you or 1 are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight, Lies drowned with us... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 240 pagina’s
...well as they. 8. Speak, whimpering younglings ; and make known The reason why Ye droop and weep. 9. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun. 10. He lives, nor yet is past his manhood's prime, Though sear'd by toil, and something touched by... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1877 - 642 pagina’s
...OF THE WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF GOD. ONE of the sweet-voiced poets sang, centuries ago, — " A vapor, or a drop of rain, Once lost, can ne'er be found again." ' Once lost, it can never be identified certainly, yet will it be seen again a thousand times, seen... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1877 - 676 pagina’s
...OF THE WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF GOD. ONE of the sweet-voiced poets sang, centuries ago, — " A vapor, or a drop of rain, Once lost, can ne'er be found again." ' Once lost, it can never be identified certainly, yet will it be seen again a thousand times, seen... | |
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Come, let us go, while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun. 
