 GARDEN How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all the flowers and trees do...  The Outlaw - Page 11by Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1835Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...poisoned. His pneins show him to have been a good and amiable man.) How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant...Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all the flow'rs, and trees, do close,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...stand upon the threshold of the new. fllarocll. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. TTOW vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant...Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid ; While all the flowers and trees do close To... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...the suffering mariner! R. SOUTH EY H' IOO4 THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN • OW vainly men themselves amaze, to win the palm, the oak, or bays, and their incessant labours see crowned from some single herb, or tree, whose short and narrow-verged shade does prudently their toils... | |
 | Sunday readings - 1867 - 232 pages
...that one so lovely should have a life so brief. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. HOW vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant...Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid, While all the flowers and trees do close To... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...The hand that made us is divine. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. TT OW vainly men themselves amaze, -*• -*• To win the palm, the oak, or bays And their incessant...Crown'd from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid ; While all the flow'rs, and trees, do close,... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 pages
...run Into the glories of the almighty sun. THE GARDEN. (TRANSLATED.) How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1870 - 224 pages
...run Into the glories of the almighty sun. THE GARDEN. (TRANSLATED.) How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their incessant labours sec Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Docs prudently their... | |
 | John Symons - Hull (England) - 1872 - 188 pages
...temporary durance from political activity : — THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant...some single herb, or tree. Whose short and narrow winged shado Does prudently their wits upbraid ; While all the flowers, and trees, do close, To weave... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 564 pages
...GARDEN. 1 How vainly men themselves/amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bayes ; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade 5 Does prudently their toyles upbraid ; While all the flow'rs and trees do close,... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...Complaining for the Death of her Fawn. THE ALL-SUFFICIENCY OF NATURE. How vainly men themselves amaze, To win the palm, the oak, or bays : And their incessant labours see Crowned from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils... | |
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