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.... The Saturday Magazine - Page 1171833Full view - About this book
| George Herbert - Christian poetry, English - 1842 - 400 pages
...— And, among those, his soul. Ufrtue. 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... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1842 - 410 pages
...STANZAS. " All things perish save virtue." " SWEET morn — 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 fragrance now I crave, To glad my sense and joy mine eye, "... | |
| Hymns, English - 1843 - 148 pages
...courage up : He'll raise your spirit when it faints, And far exceed your hope. 157. CM HERBERT. 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Christian harp - 1846 - 170 pages
...fall deplore, Whose bough the winter's hand shall touch no more. GEORGE HARDINGE. MORTALITY. SWEBT day, so cool, so calm, so bright. Bridal of earth...must die. Sweet rose, in air whose odours wave, And colours charm the eye, Thy root is ever in its grave. And thou, alas ! must die. Sweet spring, of days... | |
| Christian lyre - 1846 - 188 pages
...heaven's expanded portal, Bear it to the throne immortal ! DALE. THE EVENING STAB. 99 MORTALITY. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth...must die. Sweet rose, in air whose odours wave, And colours charm the eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou, alas ! must die. Sweet spring, of days... | |
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