 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 pages
...show; And to your beds of earth again! You are not proud! You know your birth; For your embroidered garments are from earth! You do obey your months and...know no Winter, never die; Nor think of such a thing! O, that I could my bed of earth but view; And smile, and look as cheerfully as you! O, teach me to... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...crowns the play. HENRY KING, BISHOP OF CHICHESTER 278. A Contemplation upon Flowers 1592-1669 DRAVE flowers — that I could gallant it like you, *-*...know no Winter, never die, Nor think of such a thing. O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully as you ! O teach me to see... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - English poetry - 1903 - 166 pages
...The Virgin Widow." Dcnrji lung, -13 1 sii op of Ct)irhc stcr (1591-1669) A Contemplation upon Flowers Brave flowers — that I could gallant it like you,...know no Winter, never die, Nor think of such a thing. O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully as you ! O teach me to see... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - English poetry - 1903 - 172 pages
...show, And to your beds of earth again. You are not proud : you know your birth : For your embroider' d garments are from earth. You do obey your months and...know no Winter, never die, Nor think of such a thing. O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully as you ! O teach me to see... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...show, And to your beds of earth again. You are not proud : you know your birth, For your embroidered garments are from earth. You do obey your months and...know no winter, never die, Nor think of such a thing. IO O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully as you! O teach me to... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 332 pages
...Not Bin; And that's to keep thy Lent. HENRY KING A CONTEMPLATION UPON FLOWERS Brave flowers—that I could gallant it like you And be as little vain!...no Winter, never die, Nor think of such a. thing. O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully as you! O teach me to see... | |
 | William Aspenwall Bradley - English poetry - 1910 - 204 pages
...show, And to your beds of earth again. You are not proud ; you know your birth : For your embroidered garments are from earth. You do obey your months and...know no Winter, never die Nor think of such a thing. O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully as you! O teach me to see... | |
 | Jessie Peabody Frothingham - Floriculture - 1913 - 396 pages
...superb eremurus, so seldom seen, and of such rare value for strength, height, and character. SECOND WEEK "Brave flowers — that I could gallant it like you,...know no Winter, never die Nor think of such a thing. O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully as you!" — Henry King.... | |
 | Louise Collier Willcox - English poetry - 1917 - 330 pages
...-rent; To starve thy sin, Not Bin; And that's to keep thy Lent. HENRY KING A CONTEMPLATION UPON FLOWERS Brave flowers — that I could gallant it like you...know no Winter, never die, Nor think of such a thing. O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully as you! O teach me to see... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1918 - 1120 pages
...crowns the play. HENRY KING, BISHOP OF CHICHESTER 278. A Contemplation upon Flowers 1592-1669 DRAVE flowers — that I could gallant it like you, *-*...know no Winter, never die, Nor think of such a thing. O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully as you! O teach me to see... | |
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For your embroider'd garments are from earth. You do obey your months and times, but I Would have it ever Spring: My fate would know no Winter, never die, Nor think of such a thing. O that I could my bed of earth but view And smile, and look as cheerfully... 
