Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I; Freely welcome to my cup, Couldst thou sip and sip it up: Make the most of life you may, Life is short and wears away. Both alike are mine and thine Hastening quick to their decline: Thine's a... The Poetical Works of Vincent Bourne - Página 92por Vincent Bourne - 1826 - 292 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| J C Hutchieson - 1878 - 634 páginas
...you may, Life is short and wears away. FALSE, YET FAIR. 337 Both alike are mine and tbine, Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine's a summer, mine's...summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one. 1744. FALSE, YET FAIR. On ! she was bright and fair to see, Her tresses rippled to her knee, Her laugh... | |
| Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 páginas
...Make the most of life you may; Life is short, and wears away. Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline; Thine's a summer, mine's no...summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one. Anonyutoux. THE BIRDS' MESSAGE. YE little birds that sit and sing Amidst the shady valleys, And see... | |
| George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 páginas
...away. ' ' Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine's a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore ; Threescore...when they're gone, Will appear as short as one." The Rev. Mark Noble comments upon Grose's text by saying that this story of the crown must be incorrect,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 484 páginas
...wears away 1 Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline 1 Thine's a summer, mine no more. Though repeated to threescore ! Threescore...summers when they're gone, Will appear as short as one ! " • 430 LIFE AND HABITS OF A LITERARY ANTIQUARY. in " The British Librarian," it was closed for... | |
| Sir William Purdie Treloar (bart.) - 1881 - 152 páginas
...wears away. Both alike are mine arid thine Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine's a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore ; Threescore...summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one. We cannot, however, omit one more name, well known to the past generation, that of James Robinson Planche1,... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 páginas
...wears away ! Both alike, both mine and thine, Hasten quick to their decline ! Thine's a summer; mine no more, Though repeated to threescore ! Threescore...summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one ! WILLIAM OLDYS. 21 Soliloqun. OCCASIONED BY THE CHIRPING OF A GRASSHOPPER. HAPPY insect ! ever blest... | |
| William Swinton - 1886 - 396 páginas
...the most of life you may ! Life is short and wears away. 2. Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline: Thine's a summer; mine's no...summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one. 2. — TO A GRASSHOPPER. HAPPY insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Thou dost drink and... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 páginas
...wears away. Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline, Thine's a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore. Threescore...summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one ! William Oldyt. CCLVIL THE Sages of old, In prophecy told, The cause of a nation's undoing ; But our... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 páginas
...and sip it up: Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away. Thine's a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore. Threescore...summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one ! CCXLV. THE Sages of old, William Oldys. In prophecy told, The cause of a nation's undoing ; No prophecies... | |
| 1894 - 608 páginas
...wears away. Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline ; Thine's a summer, mine no more, Though repeated to threescore. Threescore...summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one. BY ROBERT BARK. THIS is not my story, and I have really no business to write it. It belongs to the... | |
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