| John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 126 ページ
...happy fields of light, The weary are at reat. THE ROSE. OW fair is the rose! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ; But the leaves are beginning...an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ! When its leaves are all... | |
| Thomas Murby (publisher.) - 1878 - 138 ページ
...eat'-en stor'-my Rus'-si-a fright'-ened THE ROSE. HOW fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning...an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all... | |
| John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 ページ
...POfcTRY BOOK. — 38 — THE ROSE. OW fair is the rose! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April ttnd 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 all the flowers of the field ! When its leaves are all... | |
| John Green - 1879 - 326 ページ
...c,M. £ Tkt Rose. I How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower! The glory of April and May ; .!)"* 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 all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all... | |
| John Green - 1879 - 322 ページ
...fair is the rose ! That a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ; B"t the leaves are beginmng to fade in an hour. And they wither and die in a day. I Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast. Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves... | |
| mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 136 ページ
...to die. yield, to give. A-pril boast CO -lours scent How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower, The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning...an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all... | |
| Excelsior poetry book - 1880 - 234 ページ
...God, thy Life, thy Cure. —Henry Vaughan. THE ROSE. 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, Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field, — When its leaves... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1881 - 824 ページ
...And tell you, " 'Tis all but in sport." m. THE HOSE. How fair is the Rose ! what a beautiful flower . The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning...an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the Rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 ページ
...me betimes to love working and reading.' THE ROSE. 1 How fair is the rose! what a beautiful flower! The glory of April and May! But the leaves are beginning...fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. 2 Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 ページ
...of November, 1748. The Hose. How fair is the roso ! what a benntif al flower, The glory of April nud May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade In an hour. And they wither aud diu ma daj. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field ;... | |
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