 | Alan Heimert, Andrew Delbanco - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 462 pages
...And in their kind resound their makers praise: Whilst I as mute, can warble forth no higher layes. 18 When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) stil clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are... | |
 | Harrison T. Meserole - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 577 pages
...vain delight So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. 18 When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) stil clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are... | |
 | Tommaso Pisanti - Poetry - 1986 - 266 pages
...vain delight So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. 18 When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) stil clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...tears this last Farewel did take. (1. 24-28) BoWoP; MAT; NAAL-1; NAs; NOBA; WPE; WPOW Contempla tions A ; oW G P Rۯ a; Ar a 9 +) UO (1. 120-124) 5 But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid. (1. 126) 6 Nor youth, nor... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 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...wrinkle on their front are seen; If winter come, and greeness then do fade, A Spring returns, and they more youthfull made; But Man grows old, lies down,... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 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...front are seen; If winter come, and greenness then doth fade, A spring returns, and they're more youthful made. But man grows old, lies down, remains... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1148 pages
...vain delight So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. 18 When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) stil clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are... | |
 | Anne Bradstreet, Robert Hutchinson - Poetry - 2011 - 84 pages
...vain delight So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. 18 When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) stil clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...cumulative hexameter line which gathers up the thought of a Spenserian stanza into its measured conclusion: When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...seen; If winter come, and greenness then do fade, But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid. A Spring returns, and they more youthful... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...vain delight So unawares comes on perpetual night And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. 18 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... 
