 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
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 pages
...we do our wares unfold : So we freeze on, Until the grave increase our cold. Firttte. Sn-eet 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... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1859 - 660 pages
...the pale shadowy sail on the horizon alone marks the meeting of the ocean with the sky. " Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-uight ; For thou must die." On Nov. 5, 1 688, William of Orange cast anchor... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...all the way to guide their chime, "With falling oars they kept the time. VIBTUE. Inbrl. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth...dews shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose ! whose hue, angry and bravo, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye ; Thy root is ever in its... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...fortune do by vows devize, | 1 8 Sith each unto himself his life may fortunize. | VIRTUE. 1 [Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ;] The dews shall weep thy fall to-night ; | 4 ' For thou must die. | 5 [Sweet rose !] whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe... | |
 | American essays - 1860 - 794 pages
...his eyes bent down, I heard him murmuring that delicious verse of George Herbert's, — " Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ! The dew shall weep thy full to-night, For thon must die ! " " ' For thou must die,' — so sad ! And yet... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...the sage, being asked what caused him to be virtuous, answered, "The sight of vice." — Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth...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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...shalt know, ere long — Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. LONGFELLOW. 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... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1924 - 386 pages
...simplicity and with it he achieves an almost perfect calmness of easy flowing, sensitive verse. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall will thy fall tonight; For thou must die. The purity, the unaffectedness of such a stanza... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1969 - 1278 pages
...mere Sight — as the Text — (p. 50) Il.al "This verse marks that?"2 9A i 80 | 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 dye. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 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 dye! Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the... | |
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