 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Women - 1853 - 946 pages
...While of their persons and their act« his mind doth treat. When I behold the heavena аз in iheir prime. And then the earth (though old) still clad...insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are §een ; If winter come, and greenness then do fade. A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 294 pages
...vuin delight, So unawares comes on pcrpetnal night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Kor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen ; If winter come, and greenness then do fade, A Spring... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...vain delight, So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. When I behold the heavens as in their prime. And then the earth (though old) still chid in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor ngc nor wrinkle on their front are seen;... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...vuin delight, So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...fade, A Spring returns, and they more youthful made ; Bat Man grows old, lies d"own, remains where once he's laid. By birth more noble than those creatures... | |
 | Elihu Rich - Biography - 1856 - 1080 pages
...simplicity and melody of which the quaint title gives little promise. We quote a single stanza : ' When I behold the heavens, as In their prime. And then the earth, tbo' old, still clad in green, Tbe atones and trees Insensible uf time, Nor ago, nor wrinkle on the.... | |
 | Caroline May - American poetry - 1858 - 606 pages
...delight, • So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...and greenness then do fade, A Spring returns, and tfcey more youthfull made ; But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 's laid. By birth more... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...vain delight, So unawares comes ou perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor nge nor wrinkle on their front are seen; if winter come, and greenness then do fade, A Spring returns,... | |
 | Anne Bradstreet - American poetry - 1867 - 536 pages
...on perpetual night, And puts all pleafures vain unto eternal flight. 376 Anne Bradftreefs Works. 18 When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) ftil clad in green, The ftones and trees, infenfible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are... | |
 | Caroline May - American poetry - 1869 - 598 pages
...vain delight, So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...greenness then do fade, A Spring returns, and they more youthfull made ; But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 'a laid. By birth more noble than... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 558 pages
...And in their kind resound their Maker's praise: Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...more youthful made; But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 's laid. By birth more noble than those creatures all, Yet seems by nature and... | |
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When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth, though old, still clad in green, The stones and trees insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; If winter come, and greenness then do fade, A spring returns, and they... 
