 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
 | William Temple - Gardening - 1908 - 372 pages
...THE GARDEN 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 Does prudently their toyles upbraid ; While all the flow'rs and trees do close,... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...in one place then tarry we ? R. Brome The Garden T TOW 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...cankered hate, or rankest villany. J. MARSTON. 643. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...that did gain A power must it maintain. 120 1650. 1776. THE GARDEN 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 5 Does prudently their toils... | |
 | Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - 220 pages
...resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies!—Milton. CXCV. 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 poetry - 1910 - 498 pages
...chime, With falling oars they kept the time. 256 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... | |
 | James Wilson Bright, Raymond Durbin Miller - English language - 1910 - 190 pages
...stanzas. Thus the form aabbccdd is merely a succession of couplets : 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... | |
 | Norman Hepple - English poetry - 1911 - 306 pages
...with thee I mean to live. J. MILTON 151. — Thoughts in a Garden i 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 poetry - 1911 - 784 pages
...published first in first collected edition ; of Marvell's Poems, 1681) 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... | |
 | Hildegarde Hawthorne - Gardens - 1911 - 318 pages
...242 POSSIBILITIES OF THE FUTURE THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN BY ANDREW MARVEL 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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