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" We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again. "
Bell's Ladies' Reader: a Class-book of Poetry for Schools and Families. With ... - Page 84
by David Charles Bell - 1885
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Literary Hours; Or, Sketches Critical, Narrative, and Poetical, Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 572 pages
...attain'd his Noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the Even-Song; And, having prayM together, we Will go with you along. We have short...quick a growth to meet Decay, As you, or any thing. W« die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of Morning's...
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Select Poems from the Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human and Divine

Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 278 pages
...excelled in the moral, and pathetic. His choice of measure too is admirably adapted to the strain. As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or any thing...Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again. CVIII. 'UPON A LADY THAT DIED IN CHILDBED, AND LEFT A DAUGHTER...
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Select Poems from the Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human and Divine

Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 280 pages
...As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain'd his noon : Stay, stay, Until the hast'ning day Has run But to the evensong ; And, having pray'd together,...time to stay, as you ; We have as short a spring, POEM CVH.] These lines may serve to convince us, how greatly our bard excelled in the moral, and pathetic....
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 5

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 440 pages
...early-rising sun Has not attain'd its noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even song; And having pray'd together, we Will go with you along....time to stay as you, We have as short a spring; As quiek a growth to meet deeay, As you or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 5

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 392 pages
...As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain'd his noon : Stay, stay, Until the hast'ning day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together,...Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again." To Primroses, JiUed with Morning Dev. " Why do ye weep, sweet...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 5

Books - 1822 - 384 pages
...yet the early-rising sun Has not attain 'd his noon : Stay, stay, Until the hast'ning day Has run Bat to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we...Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew Ne'er to be found again." To Primroses, filled with Morning Dew. " Why do ye weep, sweet...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 9

1847 - 648 pages
...As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain'd his noon : Stay, stay, Until the hastening day Has run But to the even-song ; And having pray'd together,...spring, As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or anything: "We die, As your hours do ; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning...
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The Manchester iris, Volume 1

1822 - 394 pages
...even song ; And having pray'd together, we Will go with yon along. We have short time to stay as yon, We have as short a spring ; As quick a growth to meet...the summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's due Ne'er to he found again. •» Ф • SONNET TO ELIZA. Had there dwelt less of beauty in that rheek,...
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The Manchester iris, Volume 1, Issues 1-23

1822 - 206 pages
...have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring ; Al quick a growth to meet decay, At yon or any thing, We die As your hours do, and dry Away,...the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again. APOSTROPHE TO AN EARLY VIOLET. Sweet lovely harbinger of Spring, Earliest gift in Flora's ring, Thy...
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The works of Robert Herrick [ed. by T. Maitland]. Repr, Volume 1

Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 pages
...stay, Untill the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having pray'd together, we We will goe with you along. We have short time to stay as you,...decay, As you, or any thing. We die As your hours doe, and drie Away, Like to the summer's raine ; Or as the pearles of morning's dew, Ne'r to be found...
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