 How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all the flowers and trees do close,...  Say and Seal - Strana 415podľa Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner - 1860Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1908 - Počet stránok 464
...long, it would have been 10 Lilies without — roses within. A. Marvell CXLII THOUGHTS L\ A GARDEN How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, 5 Whose short and narrow-verged... | |
 | 1908 - Počet stránok 376
...rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again. R. HERRICK CXI THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged... | |
 | William Temple - 1908 - Počet stránok 372
...bittersweet, elder, hawthorn, i Bilberry. THE MOWER, AGAINST GARDENS BY ANDREW MARVELL (1620-1678) THE GARDEN How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bayes ; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909 - Počet stránok 570
...of the shady night, The same arts that did gain A power must it maintain. 120 1650. 1776. THE GARDEN How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - Počet stránok 636
...right free from injury Of cankered hate, or rankest villany. J. MARSTON. 643. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - Počet stránok 892
...she; From bush to bush, from tree to tree: Why in one place then tarry we ? R. Brome The Garden T TOW vainly men themselves amaze, •*• •*• To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged... | |
 | 1910 - Počet stránok 492
...XL And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged... | |
 | James Wilson Bright, Raymond Durbin Miller - 1910 - Počet stránok 190
...forms, a combination of shorter stanzas. Thus the form aabbccdd is merely a succession of couplets : How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged... | |
 | Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - Počet stránok 220
...translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies!—Milton. CXCV. A GARDEN. How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged... | |
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