 SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die....  The Western Educational Review - Page 1431871Full view - About this book
 | Frederick William Shelton - Country life - 1853 - 376 pages
...drowsy in the extreme. The Sabbath dawned, and it was like all the Sundays ever described in print, 'so cool, so calm, so bright, the bridal of the earth and sky.' The little stream which rolls at the mountain's base before the door, was roughened by a susurring breeze... | |
 | George Herbert, George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1853 - 372 pages
...at his door, Not in his parlour ; banqueting the poor, And among those his soul. VIRTUE. SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the... | |
 | George Herbert - 1853 - 376 pages
...at his door, Not in his parlour ; banqueting the poor, And among those his soul. VIRTUE. SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the... | |
 | William Clark Larrabee - Methodists - 1853 - 292 pages
...seen beneath a British sky. From morning till night not a cloud passed over the heavens. " Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky." The domestic life of the married pair proved as pure, as gentle, and as tranquil, as the marriage-day.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 760 pages
...tone of feeling by the interposition of the three following stanzas of Herbert's. VIRTUE. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. * Sonnet IX. • Sweet rose, whose hue angry and... | |
 | George Herbert - 1853 - 372 pages
...it is bright and perfect, reminding us of that beautiful strain of the Poet himself — "Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die." He commenced his ministerial work, as at Layton,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...piety which pave a charm to his life and breathes through ¡ill his writings. Ftrtu«. Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew» shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet rose 1 whose hue, angry and brave, Bids... | |
 | 1853 - 796 pages
...it is bright and perfect, reminding us of that beautiful strain of the Poet himself — " Sweet day, SO cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to.night ; For tlinn must die." " He commenced his ministerial work, as at... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pages
...of feeling by the interposition of the three following stanzas of Herbert's: VIRTU!. Pwfct day. 10 cool, so calm, so bright. The bridal of the earth and sky : The dew shall weep thy fill to-night, Fur thou must dye ! Sweet гои, whose hue angry and brave Bids... | |
 | Oliver Alden Taylor - 1854 - 580 pages
...excepted, which •was somewhat intense) to which the poet has referred, when he said : — " ' Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew will weep thy fall at night, For thou must die.' " Still more beautiful was the evening ; the moon... | |
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