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 will yield... The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening - Page iby Ron Krupp - 2001 - 240 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| English poets - 1790 - 264 pages
...wither and die in a day. Yet Vet the Rofe has one powerful virtue to boalt, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are loft, Still how fweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, Though... | |
| Richard Johnson - Children's poetry - 1793 - 198 pages
...they wither and die in a day. Yet the Rofe has one powerful virtue to boaft Above all the flow'rs of the field, When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are loft, Still how fweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, Tho' they... | |
| W. M. - Children - 1801 - 356 pages
...they wither and die in a day. Yet the rofe has one powerful virtue to boaft, Above all the flow'rs of the field: When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are ' loft, Still how fweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, ,Tho"... | |
| Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...And.they, wither and die in n day. Yet the role has one powerful virtue to boafl, . Above all theflow'rs of the field : When its leaves Are all dead', and fine colours are loft, Still how fweet a perfume will it yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, Tho' they... | |
| Isaac Watts - English poetry - 1807 - 410 pages
...they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerftd virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine...are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beanty of men, Though they bloom and look gay like the rose : But all... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...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...are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the youth and the beauty of men, Though thi:y bloom and look gay like the rose; But all... | |
| Isaac Watts - Children's poetry - 1800 - 82 pages
...they wither and die in a Day. Yet the Rofe has one powerful Virtue to boaft, Above all the Flow'rs of the Field : When its Leaves are all dead, and fine Colours are loft, Still how fweet a perfume it will yield ! So frail is the Youth and the Beauty of Men, But all... | |
| Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...they wither and die in a day. s Vet the Rote has onepowerful 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 will y,. U ! 5 Sofrmilistheyouth and the beauty of man, Tho' they bloom and look gay like the Rose : But... | |
| Albert Picket - Spellers - 1819 - 258 pages
...they wither and die in a day. Yet the rose has one powerful beauty to boast Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet the perfume it will yield. So frail is the youth, and the beauty of man, Though they bloom and look... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...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...are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield! * The rose is a universal favourite, particularly in the East, where there are many splendid varieties... | |
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