 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.  Death; with other poems - Page 157by Robert Montgomery - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - Bible - 1889 - 334 pages
...— life." And in England we have had our Shelley and our Byron. ' ' 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." " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1889 - 532 pages
...times, in which neither age nor sex lorms an exemption to the lot of a savage warfare. CHAPTER XXXI. "The flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow dies ; All that we wish to stay. Tempts nnd then flies ; What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright."... | |
 | Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - English poetry - 1890 - 534 pages
...<^/eû, 'Е/cáтa Зao-тгXт}™, тà navтa TOI e JOHN В. BURY. TOUT LASSE, TOUT PASSE, TOUT CASSE. THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies : All...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... | |
 | Elme-Marie Caro - Pessimism - 1891 - 510 pages
...Hardly could the pessimist's sad message be conveyed in more impressive language than in the lines : The flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies ; All...Tempts, and then flies : What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. In Byron the vein of pessimism has a yet darker... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1891 - 766 pages
...I love thee — • Thou art love and life ! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home. MUTABILITY THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay TO What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 342 pages
...two, which move And form all others, life and love. To . Published by NIB. Shelley, 1824. MUTABILITY I THE flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies ; All...Tempts and then flies. What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. n Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship how rare... | |
 | Georg Brandes - English literature - 1892 - 558 pages
...skuffer og Livet bedrager. Et evigt Udtryk har han givet denne Bevidsthed i et Digt som « Mutability »: The flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies: All...we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this worlds delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue how frail it is! Friendship... | |
 | Georg Brandes - Literature, Modern - 1892 - 558 pages
...skuffer og Livet bedrager. Et evigt Udtryk har han givet denne Bevidsthed i et Digt som «Mutability» : The flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies: All...we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this worlds delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue how frail it is! Friendship... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 634 pages
...Spirit, I love thee— Thou art love and life ! 0 come, Make once more my heart thy home. MUTABILITY. L 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. IL Virtue, how frail it is! Friendship how... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 968 pages
...vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone. 1SS1. 1834. MUTABILITY 538 539 But Godainoighty amoost taake meaan' taake...cows to cauve an' Tburnaby hoalins to plow 1 Loook 'o Lightning that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is! Friendship how rare... | |
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