 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 290 Seiten
...things to end are made ; The plague full swift goes by ; I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us ! Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour...the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye ; I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us ! Strength stoops unto the grave... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - 1858 - 270 Seiten
...to end are made ; The plague full swift goes by ; I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us ! " Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour...air ; Queens have died young and fair ; Dust hath closed Helen's eye ; I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us ! " Strength stoops unto the grave... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - 1858 - 296 Seiten
...wrinkles will devour : Brightness falls from the air ; Queens have died young and fair ; Dust hath closed Helen's eye ; I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us ! " Strength stoops unto the grave : Worms feed on Hector brave. Swords may not fight with fate : Earth... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 884 Seiten
...meaning also there is nothing to stumble over, and find out what men lose who are not in love with Helen. Brightness falls from the air, Queens have died young and fair, Dust hath closed Helen's eye. I pick my examples at random, for I am writing where I have no books to turn the... | |
 | 1901 - 472 Seiten
...surely deserve a place in any but the briefest anthology. I quote one stanza from the latter poem: 'Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour:...the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye: I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us!" These three anthologies of Professor... | |
 | 1901 - 470 Seiten
...surely deserve a place in any but the briefest anthology. I quote one stanza from the latter poem: 'Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour:...the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye: I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us!9 These three anthologies of Professor... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1866 - 240 Seiten
...plague full swift goes by : I am fick, I muft die. Lord, have mercy on us! Beauty is but a ftower, Which wrinkles will devour: Brightness falls from the air ; Queens have died young and fair: Duft hath closed Helens eye: I am fick, I muft die. [•S9*-l I. Strength ftoops unto the grave ; Worms... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1874 - 482 Seiten
...Lord, have mercy on us ! Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour: BrigIUness falls from tlie air; Queens have died young and fair. Dust hath clos'd...eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us ! Strength stoops into the grave : Worms feed on Hector brave. Swords may not fight with fate : Earth... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - 524 Seiten
...Yertumnua. I AA '\ The plague full swift (joes by. I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us ! Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour...falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair. J)ust hath clos'd Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us ! Strength stoops into... | |
 | W. F. March Phillipps - 1879 - 384 Seiten
...things to end are made ; The plague full swift goes by : I am sick, I must die ; Lord, have mercy on us. Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour,...the air, Queens have died young and fair, Dust hath closed Helen's eye ; I am sick, I must die ; Lord, have mercy on us. Strength stoops unto the grave,... | |
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Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour: Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye; I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us! 
