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.... Essays and Thoughts on Various Subjects, and from Various Authors, &c ... - Page 277by George Horne - 1808 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
| Story-teller - English fiction - 1843 - 324 pages
...DAVIES. 1570—1626. PERISHING BEAUTIES. 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. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593—1632. Time is the herald of Trueth, and Trueth the daughter of Time.... | |
| Cheshire Pastoral Association (Cheshire, Conn.) - Hymns, English - 1845 - 498 pages
...all to sing thy praise In better songs on high. 657. CM HERBERT. The Soul's Beauty unfading. 1 SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth...weep thy fall to-night, For thou, alas ! must die. 2 Sweet rose ! in air whose odors wave, And color charms the eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And... | |
| William Johnson Fox - Hymns, English - 1845 - 124 pages
...that ever stand ; They build their temples in the soul, And work with God's right hand. CXL. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth...sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die ! Sweet rose ! in air whose odours wave, And colour charms the eye ; Thy root is ever in its... | |
| Asa Mahan - Psychology - 1845 - 348 pages
...presentation of a single additional instance : " 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." The beauty of this inconceivably beautiful thought, consists in representing the dew-drop,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...three following stanzas of Herbert's : VIRTUE. Sweet day, ao cool, so calm, so bright. The bridil orthe earth and sky : The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must dye ! Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe hu eye : Thy root is ever... | |
| Cheshire Pastoral Association - Hymns, English - 1846 - 574 pages
...tune them all to sing thy praise In better songs on high. 657. CM Hi, Soul's Beauty unfading. 1 SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth...weep thy fall to-night, For thou, alas ! must die. 2 Sweet rose ! in air whose odors wave, And color charms the eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And... | |
| John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Hymns, English - 1846 - 706 pages
...hymn, And thought, my only sacrifice. 962. CM HEKEERT. / / The Soul's Beauty Unfading. I / 1 SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth...weep thy fall to-night, For thou, alas ! must die. 2 Sweet rose ! in air whose odors wave, And color charms the eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And... | |
| James Martineau - Hymns, English - 1846 - 538 pages
...to immortality. 61. 79. 180. 1SI. 515. CM HERBERT. The imperishable bleuedness of the good. 1 SWEET Day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth...weep thy fall tonight, For thou, alas ! must die. 2 Sweet Rose ! in air whose odours wave, And colour charms the eye ; Thy root is ever in its grave,... | |
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...Then, stricken spirit, do not pine, But hail the Comforter divine. W. MARTIN. WHICH FADETH NOT. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth...sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die ! Sweet rose ! in air whose odours wave, And colour charms the eye ; Thy root is ever in its... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...TO A SKYLARK. 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 eye, Thy root is ever... | |
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