 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
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1853 - 762 pages
...songs on high. 657. C" MHBB.BT tte Soul's Beauty unfading. 1 SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so blight, Bridal of earth and sky, The dew shall 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, .... | |
 | George Herbert, George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1853 - 372 pages
...the poor, And among those his soul. VIRTUE. 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... | |
 | George Herbert - 1853 - 372 pages
...beautiful strain of the Poet himself — "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." He commenced his ministerial work, as at Layton, by repairing the church-, the chancel,... | |
 | George Herbert - 1853 - 376 pages
...the poor, And among those his soul. VIRTUE. 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 ejc, Thy root is ever... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...breathes through ¡ill his writings. Ftrtu«. 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 1 whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye ; Thy root is ever... | |
 | Asa Fitz - Hymns, English - 1854 - 204 pages
...Health, Hope, Happiness. Oh ! come, come away XCII. CM BALERMA — ORTONVILLI. Our Destiny. 1 Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, Bridal of earth and sky ! The dew shall weep thy fall to night, For thou, alas ! must die. St Sweet rose in air, whose odors wave, And color charms the eye'!... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...words of the pious old George Herbert : — Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of th« earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die ! Sweet rose ! whose hue, early and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever... | |
 | John William Clayton - Egypt - 1854 - 134 pages
...To lift from earth our low desire. Sweet day, so warm — so calm — so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. HERBERT. IT was seven in the morning of the 19th of November that, with the aid of a telescope,... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...is a sigh ; 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...advance At the approach of death. W. Hablngton. 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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