 LIKE as the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on the tree, Or like the dainty flower of May, Or like the morning of the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had; Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out,...  The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 1691808Full view - About this book
 | Essex (England) - 1899 - 292 pages
...under the heading : — HOS EGO VERSICULOS. Like to the Damask Rose you see, Or like the blossome on a tree, Or like the dainty flower of May, Or like the morning to the day, Or like the Sunne, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had ; Even such is... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1901 - 412 pages
...Alderman Richard Humble (1616) and his two wives. The inscription is attributed to Francis Quarles— 1 Like to the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom...dainty flower of May, Or like the morning of the day, 1 There is a curious tract called ' The True History of the Life and sudden Death of old John Overs,... | |
 | American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...were pour'd, As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven ! OLIVER WENDELL HOLIID. MAX'S MORTALITY. LIKE as ness love, Thy justice fear. If in this bottom aught but Thee, Encroaching, sought in May, Or like the morning of the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which... | |
 | Otto Ritter - 1901 - 280 pages
...gawdy hue . . Or bubbles which on water stood,' etc., oder von ähnlichen Gedichten dieser Art, wie 'Like to the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on the tree, Or like,' etc. (cf. NQ 8, VI. 419), 'Like to a dove-cote never haunted . . Or like,' etc. (Roxburghe Ballads,... | |
 | English literature - 1901 - 756 pages
...gawdy hue . . Or bubbles which on water stood,' etc., oder von ähnlichen Gedichten dieser Art, wie 'Like to the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on the tree, Or like,' etc. (cf. NQ 8, VI. 419), 'Like to a dove-cote never haunted . . Or like,' etc. (Roxburghe Ballads,... | |
 | Morton W. Spencer - Anglo-Israelism - 1901 - 510 pages
...rose you see, Or like a blossom on a tree, Or like the dainty flower in May, Or like the morning to the day, Or like the sun or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonah made : Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out and out, and so is done. The rose withers,... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 1058 pages
...But, though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. GEORGE HERBERT. MAN'S MORTALITY. LIKE as the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on the tree, Or like the dainty flower in May, Or like the morning of the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English poetry - 1921 - 570 pages
...lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot. 10 WASTELL. [II.] Like as the damask rose you see ; Or like the blossom on the...like the dainty flower of May ; Or like the morning to the day ; Or like the Sun ; or like the shade ; Or like the gourd which Jonas had ; Even such is... | |
 | William Thompson - Southwark Cathedral - 1906 - 486 pages
...beautiful and pathetic lines attributed to Quarles, to Simon Wastell, to Beaumont, and others : — " Like to the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on the tree, Or like the dainty flower in May, Or like the morning of the day. Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1906 - 880 pages
...rose you see, Or like a blossom on a tree, Or like the dainty flower in May, Or like the morning to the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had; Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Prawn out and out, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom... | |
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