 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1824 - 440 pages
...except to know. That shadows follow them where'er they go. MUTABILITY. 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. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare!... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...specie* of useful and laudable knowledge. BLIGHTED AFFECTION. A Sketch. The flow'r, that smiles to-day, To-morrow dies — All that we wish to stay Tempts, and then flies. PB Shelley, SCARCELY any thing is more fatal to the future comfort and felicity of men endowed with... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1826 - 156 pages
...except to know That shadows follow them where'er they go. MUTABILITY. 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. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...cicept to know That shadows follow them where'er they go. MUTABILITY. THE flower that smiles to-day d smiled To gee it rise thus joyous from its dreams, The fresh and radiant Earth. The hoary gro Lightning that mocks the night. Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is! Friendship loo rare!... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...except to know That shadows follow them where'er they go. MUTABILITY. TUE flower that smiles to-day sp Lightning that mocks the night. Brief even as bright Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...know That shadows follow them where'er they go. MUTABILITY. THE flower that smiles to-day Tu-morrow dies ; All that we wish to stay. Tempts and then flies; What is this world's delight ? Lightning that mocks the night, Uriel' even as hright. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...worse than their outbursts of noble enthusiasm. JP RICHTER. MUTABHJTY. 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 sight, Brief even as bright. Virtue, how frail it is, Friendship, too rare!... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...star, Spirits from heyond the moon, O, refuse the hoon ! MUTAB1L1TY. THK 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 hright. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too rare... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...star, Spirits from beyond the moon, O, refuse the boon ! MUTABILITY. 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. . Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship too... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...1 turners : for trunnels it is used almost exclusively. VICISSITUDE. 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. Virtue, how frail it is ! Friendship, too... | |
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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. 
