 | Banner - Christian life - 1874 - 354 pages
...room full of people, but would not say Come ! to a poor lost soul that sat by their side. CJ Brooks. O that I were an orange tree, That busy plant ! Then...And never want Some fruit for Him that dresseth me. George Herbert. She came to her work with all the freshness and energy of youth, fired with the desire... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 168 pages
...and flowers, is a fig-ure and type of the active hardworking Christian. Thus the poet says — " Oh, that I were an orange tree, That busy plant ! Then...And never want Some fruit for Him that dresseth me." 75.- THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE. / // /' / / / / • fieo—rue /A-temct &CGfi-fa4t<z, -tet / / f /... | |
 | James Yeames - Christian life - 1874 - 88 pages
...mortal fire : Who blows it not, nor doth control A faint desire, Lets his own ashes choke his soul. " Oh that I were an orange tree — That busy plant ! Then...ever laden be, And never want Some fruit for Him that dressed me. " But we are still too young or old ; The man is gone Before we do our wares unfold : So... | |
 | George Herbert - 1874 - 396 pages
...continually Whereas the starres Watch an advantage to appoare. 20 Oh that I were an orengo-tree, That busio plant! Then should I ever laden be, And never want Some fruit for him that dressed me. 25 But we are still too young or old ; The man is gone Before we do our wares unfold; So... | |
 | Day - 1874 - 406 pages
...Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit." " Oh ! that I were an orange- tree, That busie plant ! Then should I ever laden be, And never want Some fruit for Him, that dressed me." HOSEA xiv. 8. — " From me is thy fruit found." - ««JCx NUM. x. 29. — " Come thou... | |
 | George Herbert - 1874 - 386 pages
...repetition of the Oreadic aspiration : " O that I were an orenge-tree, That busy plant! Then I should ever laden be, And never want Some fruit for Him that dresseth me." ' Although, however, the imagery and illustrations of HERBERT'S poems are almost entirely drawn from... | |
 | Francis Andrew March - Hymns, Latin - 1875 - 336 pages
...and flowers at once, has displaced the olive in our associations: " Oh, that I were an orange-tree, That busy plant ! Then should I ever laden be, And never want Some fruit for him that dressed me." GEOEGE HEEBEUT. — 18. Devotos, the subject of vivere. — 21-24. This stanza was added... | |
 | Marie Elise Turner T. Lauder - Great Britain - 1876 - 398 pages
...fur, To cold complexions needing it. ' ' O that I were an orange-tree, That busy plant ! Then I should laden be, And never want Some fruit for him that dresseth me. " Through all his poems there breathes a deep, self-consecrating piety — a spirit that loves to lose... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1877 - 406 pages
...shineth there or here ; Whereas the stars Watdi an advantage to appear. HERBERT AT BEMERTON. 319 Oh that I were an orange tree, That busy plant ! Then...ever laden be, And never want Some fruit for him that dressed me. But we are still too young or old ; The man is gone Before we do our wares unfold ; So... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...shincth there or here, Whereas the stars Watch an advantage to appear. Oh that I were an orange-tree, they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grie thit dresseth me. But we are still too young or old ; The man is gone Before we do our wars unfold... | |
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Oh that I were an orange-tree, That busy plant ; Then should I ever laden be, And never want Some fruit for Him that dressed me. 
