 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 ページ
...little rain, And then night sweeps along the plain, And all things fade away. Man (soon discuss'd) Yields up his trust, And all his hopes and fears lie with him in the dust. 5. Oh ! what is Beauty's power ? It flourishes and dies ; Will the cold earth its silence break, To... | |
 | Christian lyre - 1846 - 188 ページ
...CAROLINE FRY. 48 THE VANITIES OF EARTH. THE VANITIES OF EARTH. WHAT is this passing scene ? A feverish April day ! A little sun — a little rain, And then...all his hopes and fears lie with him in the dust. O, what is beauty's power ? It flourishes and dies ; Will the cold earth its silence break To tell... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1849 - 346 ページ
...abode of the just, in the paradise of God. AMHERST. MONTHLY CALENDAR OF NATURAL PHENOMENA. APRIL. " What is this passing scene ? A peevish April day,...all his hopes and fears lie with him in the dust." THUS sung our christian poet, Kirke White, and he did so from the feeling, that of all evidences of... | |
 | James Weir - 1850 - 704 ページ
...reality but commenced. CHAPTER XXIII. What is t!n= passing scene? A peevish April day! A little ran— a little rain And then night sweeps along the plain,...all his hopes and fears lie with him in the dust. WITH the death of the Fatalist, concludes his life of error and crime, and my story. We have travelled... | |
 | 1863 - 896 ページ
...pilgrims of earth — "What is this passing scene ? A peevish April day ! A little sun— a little rain, I And then night sweeps along the plain, And all things...And all his hopes and fears lie with him in the dust !" There is another reflection which goed to make up tho sober and solemn feature in our meditations,... | |
 | 1850 - 300 ページ
...a little rain, And then night sweeps along the plain, And all things fade away Man (soon discuss'd) Yields up his trust, And all his hopes and fears lie with him in the dust. O, what is Beauty's power ? It flourishes and dies ; Will the cold earth its silence break, To tell... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1851 - 964 ページ
...skill—the flute-like voice is silent to the sons of men. With the melancholy Kirke White we say— " What is this passing scene ? A peevish April day !...all his hopes and fears lie with him in the dust. " The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day, So music past is obsolete— And yet 'twas sweet,... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 ページ
...his native home. LAY NOT UP TREASURES UPON EARTH. WHAT is this passing scene ? A peevish April-day ! A little sun, — a little rain, — And then night...And all his hopes and fears lie with him in the dust ! And what is beauty's power ? It flourishes and dies ; Will the cold earth its silence break, To tell... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - 1853 - 410 ページ
...there here that has any value, except as it stands related to the higher and longer life to come ? What is this passing scene ? A peevish April day !...And all his hopes and fears Lie with him in the dust ! The only worthy motive any one can have at all, in desiring to remain here, is to do good ; but if... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 ページ
...little rain, And then night sweeps along the plain, And all things fade away. Man (soon discuss'd) Yields up his trust, And all his hopes and fears lie with him in the dust. Oh, what is beauty's power? H flourishes and dies ; Will the cold earth its silence break To tell how... | |
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O ! what is beauty's power ? It flourishes and dies ; Will the cold earth its silence break, To tell how soft, how smooth a cheek, Beneath its surface lies ? Mute, mute is all, O'er beauty's fall, Her praise resounds no more when mantled in her pall. 
