 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, 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...  The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening - Page iby Ron Krupp - 2001 - 240 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...April and May ! But the leaves are. iKginning 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 dead, and finecolours are tost, Still how sweet a perfume it... | |
 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...April and 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 dead, and fine colou: s are lost, Still how sweet a perfume... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...autumn when the sun was going down.— N ote X to the Farmer's t.isiun, quoted in p. 86, et seq. P Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - Readers - 1822 - 186 pages
...June and July ; But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, In a day they both wither and die. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast Above all the flowers of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and its fine colours lost, Still how sweet a perfume it... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...April and 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 flow'rs of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...April and 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 dead, and its fine colours lost, Still how sweet a perfume it... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1828 - 188 pages
...April and May ; — But the leaves are beginning to fade hi mi hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast Above all the flow'rs of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still liow sweet a... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Children's poetry, English - 1829 - 76 pages
...April and 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 flow'rs of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...April and May ! But the leave» are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither aud die in a day. Tot xchange of the field ; When its leaves are all dead, and its flne colours lost, u CYCLOPAEDIA OF So frail is... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children's poetry - 1831 - 178 pages
...fragrant and gay ! But the leaves are beginning to 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 : Whpn its leaves are all dead, and fine colours lostStill bow sweet a perfume it will... | |
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