 THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies ; All that we wish to stay, Tempts and then flies; What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare ! Love, how it sells poor...  Works - Page 281by James Fenimore Cooper - 1865Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 798 pages
...the night. Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare ! Love, how it »ells poor bliss For proud despair ! But we, though soon...fall, Survive their joy and all Which ours we call. Whilst skies are blue and bright« Whilst flowers are gay. Whilst eyes that change ere night Make glad... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1824 - 438 pages
...flies; What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare ! Love, how it sells...fall, Survive their joy and all Which ours we call. Whilst skies are blue and bright, Whilst flowers are gay, Whilst eyes that change ere night Make glad... | |
 | 1824 - 818 pages
...this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night. Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is i Friendship too rare ! Love, how it sells poor bliss...fall, Survive their joy and all Which ours we call. Whilst skies are blue and bright, Whilst flowers are gay, Whilst eyes that change ere night Make glad... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...; What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare ! Love, how it sells poor bliss For proud despair ! Bat we, though soon they fall, Survive their joy and all Which ours we call. Whilst skies are blue... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...delight! Lightning that mocks the night. Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is! Friendship loo rare! Love, how it sells poor bliss For proud despair...' But we, though soon they fall. Survive their joy und all Which ours we call. Whilst tkies are blue and bright, WhiUt flowers are gay, Whilst eyes that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...flies : What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night. Brief even as bright Virtue, how Vei'd into whirlpools by the chasms beneath ; And...free, and they began to breathe )eep curses, like oun we call. 230 MISCELLANEOUS ГОЕМ8. WhiUt skie« are blue and bright, Whilst flowers are gay,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...flies; What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Uriel' even as hright. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare ! Love, how it sells...fall, Survive their joy and all Which ours we call. Whilst skies are blue and brighl, Whilst flowers are gay, Whilst eye* that change ere night Make glad... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...flies. What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the sight, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is, Friendship, too rare! Love, how it sells...though soon they fall, Survive their joy, and all That ours we call. Whilst skies are blue and bright, Whilst flowers are gay, Whilst eyes that change... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pages
...: What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare ! Love, how it sells...fall, Survive their joy and all Which ours we call. Whilst skies are blue and bright, Whilst flowers are gay, Whilst eyes that change ere night Make glad... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. . Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare ! Ix>ve, how it sells poor bliss For proud despair ! But we,...fall, Survive their joy and all Which ours we call. Whilst skies are blue and bright, Whilst flowers are gay, Whilst eyes that change ere night Make glad... | |
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