 MY life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But, ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground — to die! Yet on the rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of night are shed, As if she wept the waste to see, — But none...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 2041837Full view - About this book
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...touch'd by sorrow's tears, Will never shine so bright again. Ib. SONG — By Mr. R. Wilde, of Georgia. Mr life is like the summer rose, That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close, Is scatter'd on the ground to die: But on that rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of... | |
 | English literature - 1824 - 436 pages
...Joseph Buonaparte'' lives the life of a plain country gentleman. THE AMERICAN MUSE. No. 4. STANZAS. Mr life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close, fa scattered on the ground to die. Yet on that rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of... | |
 | Patrick O'Kelly - 1824 - 132 pages
...grateful Tenantry, being one of the most lenient Landlords in this Land of -aristocratic peculation. My life is like the Summer Rose, That opens to the morning :Sky : .; ; i . But e're the shade ,of evening' clege, Is scatter'd on the ground to die. But on the Rose's... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...moots in the court of the muses, with as much ingenuity as the barrister in his own court. STANZAS. My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But, ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground to die. Yet on that rose's humble bed The sweetest dews of... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...he thought none mark'd him, he would weep, Or sing this song of wo which still our maidens keep. " My life is like the "summer rose That opens to the morning sky, And ere the shades of evening close, Is scatter'd on the ground — to die ! Yet on that rose's humble... | |
 | Patrick O'Kelly - Irish poetry - 1831 - 172 pages
...News-Letter.) ANSWER, BT J. O'LEARY, ESQ. CORK. TO P. O'KELLY, ESQ. ON READING HIS SIMILE BEGINNING " My life is like the summer rose " That opens to the morning sky." Dark and cheerless rose the day, Not one glimpse of Solar ray ; Shone to dissipate the gloom Brooding... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...every other, and no one has a right to throw the least impediment in his way. STANZAS BY Mr. RH WILDE. My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But, ere the shades of evening close, 1ч scattered on the ground to die. Yet on that rose's humble bed The sweetest dews... | |
 | 1835 - 804 pages
...sometimes described on the maps as the bay of Espiritu Santo. BIT LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE. MT life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, And ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground to die; Yet on that rose's humble bed... | |
 | Basil Hall - Styria (Austria) - 1836 - 368 pages
...they are by herself, for they are certainly exactly such as suited her cast of thought. I may here repeat, that in spite of all her misfortunes, and...That opens to the morning sky ; But ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground to die. But on that rose's humble bed, The sweetest dews... | |
 | Basil Hall - Styria (Austria) - 1836 - 228 pages
...they ar6 by herself, for they are certainly "exactly such as suited her cast of thought. I may here repeat, that in spite of all her misfortunes, and...That opens to the morning sky ; But ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground to die. * But on that rose's humble bed, The sweetest dews... | |
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