 It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and...  The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language - Стр. 64авторы: Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - Страниц: 483Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - Страниц: 454
...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. A LOVE SONG. O, do not wanton with those eyes, Lest I be sick with seeing ; Nor cast them down, but... | |
 | 1876 - Страниц: 1000
...standing like an oak, three hundred rear. To Rill a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A Illy of a day is fairer far in May ; Although It fall and die that...beauties see. And in short measures life may perfect be. —DUN. JONSOH. MEN do not make their homes unhappy because they have genius, bnt because they have... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Страниц: 304
...she'll procure Some way of entrance) we must plant a guard Of thoughts to watch and ward . . . or of It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In... | |
 | 1927 - Страниц: 332
...Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." THE JUBILEE YEAR. By AJ MACSELF, Reading. The modern school of journalism would probably insist that... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - Страниц: 802
...Jonson's favourite poet Horace. One famous stanza will show the free form and the meditative tone : It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In... | |
 | Y. Masih - 1991 - Страниц: 432
...standing long an oak three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere; A lily of a day, Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.9 Why? Because the lily of a day in the words of Keats is a thing of beauty and is a joy for ever... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - Страниц: 1172
...answered, and was formed how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air. (1. 59-64) 41 Satanic Mills? 35 Bring me my Bow of burning gold: Is fairer far in May Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In... | |
 | Tore Fr ngsmyr, Sture All n - 1993 - Страниц: 180
...poet—prose writer though I am you will have begun to realise where my heart is—Ben Jonson said: "It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make...log at last, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - Страниц: 936
...syllab'e answer'd, and was form'd, how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air. THE TURN It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, 70 Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - Страниц: 500
...syllabe answered, and was formed how fair, These make the lines of life, and that's her air. The Turn 65 It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day 70 Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light.... | |
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