 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 426 pages
...tell you, " 'Tis all but in fport.'' III. The ROS E. HOW fair is the rofe ! what a beautiful flower l The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning...fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet Vet ffit Rofe has one powerful virtue to boaft, Above all the flowers of the field i When its leaves... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 424 pages
...tell you, " 'Tis ail but in fport." III. The ROS E. HOW fair ii the rofe ! what a beautiful flower t The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither 'auii die in a day. Yet tlie Rofe has one powerful virtue to boaft, Above all the flowers of the field... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 400 pages
...fport." III. The ROS E. " OW fair is the fofe I what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May I But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Ytt H Yet llle Rofe has one powerful virtue to boaft, Above all the flowers of the field i When its... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 264 pages
...will fling about fire, And tell you, " 'Tis all but in fport." III. THE ROSE. HO W fair is the rofe '. what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May...fade in an hour, And they 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...WATTS. IOW fair is the rofe ! what a beautiful flow'r ! The glory of April and May ! But the leaves arc + Ytt the rofc has one powerful virtue to boaft, Above all the flow'rs of the field : [loft, When its... | |
 | Richard Johnson - Children's poetry - 1793 - 198 pages
...men. What you wodld itot take again. s-.-cil THE ROSE. HOW fair is the Rofe ! what a beautiful flow'r! The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning...fade in an hour, And 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... | |
 | 1794 - 954 pages
...madman will fling about Crc, And tell you, " 'Tie all hut in fport." III. THE ROSE. THE WORKS OF WATTS. But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rofe has one powerful virtue to boaft, Above all the flowers of the field : When its leaves... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 972 pages
...about fire, And tell you, " 'Tis all but ill (port." III. THE ROSE. sr* JBut the leaves arc oeginninp; to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rofe has one powerful virtue to boaft, Above al! the flowers of the field : When its leaves... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...all but in fport." § Sj. Tbe Rofe. WATTS. TTOW fair is the role ! what a beautiful flow'r! 1 •* The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning...fade in an hour. And they wither and die in a day. Yet the rofe has one powerful virtue to boaft. Above all the dow'rs of the field : [loft. When its... | |
 | W. M. - Children - 1801 - 356 pages
...call, attends The mufic of the mind. CARTER, 1 THE ROSE. HOW fair is the rofe! what a beautiful how'rl The Glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning...fade in an hour, And 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... | |
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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, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the Rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field... 
