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" We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again. "
Lancashire Poets: And Other Literary Sketches ; in a Series of Lectures (Dec ... - Page 113
by Thomas Costley - 1897 - 452 pages
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Literary Hours; Or, Sketches Critical, Narrative, and Poetical, Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1804 - 572 pages
...stay, as you, We. have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet Decay, As you, or any thing. W« die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of Morning's dew Ne'er to be found again. Page 144. The cultivation of DESCRIPTIVE Poetry...
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Select Poems from the Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human and Divine

Robert Herrick - 1810 - 278 pages
...excelled in the moral, and pathetic. His choice of measure too is admirably adapted to the strain. As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or any thing...do; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again. CVIII. 'UPON A LADY THAT DIED IN CHILDBED, AND LEFT...
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Select Poems from the Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human and Divine

Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 pages
...pathetic. His choice of measure too is admirably adapted to the strain. As quick a growth to meet decays As you, or any thing : We die, As your hours do; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again. CVIII. UPON A LADY THAT DIED IN CHILDBED, AND LEFT...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 5

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 440 pages
...along. We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring; As quiek a growth to meet deeay, As you or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again. THE NIGHT-PIECE, TO JULIA. IU:n eyes the glow-wonn...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 5

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...attain'd his noon : Stay, stay, Until the hast'ning day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along ! We have short...do ; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again." To Primroses, JiUed with Morning Dev. " Why do...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 5

1822 - 384 pages
...'d his noon : Stay, stay, Until the hast'ning day Has run Bat to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along ! We have short...do ; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again." To Primroses, filled with Morning Dew. " Why do...
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The Manchester iris, Volume 1

1822 - 394 pages
...even song ; And having pray'd together, we Will go with yon along. We have short time to stay as yon, We have as short a spring ; As quick a growth to meet...do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's due Ne'er to he found again. •» Ô • SONNET TO ELIZA. Had there dwelt...
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The Manchester iris, Volume 1, Issues 1-23

1822 - 206 pages
...have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring ; Al quick a growth to meet decay, At yon or any thing, We die As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain : Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again. APOSTROPHE TO AN EARLY VIOLET. Sweet lovely harbinger...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 9

1847 - 648 pages
...time to stay, as you ; We have as short a spring, As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or anything: "We die, As your hours do ; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found again. III. — THE SUCCESSION OF THE FOUR SWEET MONTHS....
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...rising sun Has not attained his noon : Stay, stay, Until the hastening day Has run But to the even song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with...your hours do; and dry Away, Like to the summer's raine, Or as the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found agame. We are reminded of the first appearance...
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