 | 1795 - 848 lehte
...away, 40 Triumphant o'er the rage of time, It keeps the fragraice of its prime. Come, ¡yr ¡11, juin to fing the birth Of this fweet offspring of the earth ! When Venus from the ocean's bed Rait'd o'er the waves her lovely head ; When warlike Pallas fprung from Jove, Tremendous to the powers... | |
 | 1797 - 386 lehte
...pleasing fragrance o'er the dead: And when its with'ring charms decay, And sinking, fading, die away, 40 Triumphant o'er the rage of time It keeps the fragrance of its prime. Come, Lyrist 1 join to sing the birth Of this sweet offspring of the Earth. When Venus from the Ocean's bed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 516 lehte
...its odours (bed A pleafmg fragrance o'er the dead ; And when it< withering charms decay. And finking, fading, die away, Triumphant o'er the rage of time, It keeps the fragrance of iti prime. Come, lyrift, join to fing the birth Of this fweet offspring of the earth ! When Venus from... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 528 lehte
...decay, And finking, fading, die away, Triumphant o'er the rage of time, It keeps the fragrance of it« prime. Come, lyrift, join to fing the birth Of this fweet offspring of the earth ) When Venu« from the ocean's bed Rais'd o'er the waves her lovely head ; When warlike Pallas fprung from... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 798 lehte
...pleasing fragrance o'er the dead: And when its withering charms decay, And sinking, fading, die away, 49 Triumphant o'er the rage of time, It keeps the fragrance of its prime. 21. The rose the poets strive to praise] The rose is celebrated in the fifth ode of Anaereon ; in a... | |
 | John Potter - 1818 - 626 lehte
...its odours shed A pleasing fragrance o'er the dead : And when its withering charms decay And sinking, fading, die away, Triumphant o'er the rage of time It keeps the fragrance of its prime. uooxx. Nor was the use of myrtle less common ; whence Euripides introduces Electra complaining that... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 334 lehte
...its odours shed A pleasing fragrance o'er the dead; And when its withering charms decay, And sinking, fading, die away; Triumphant o'er the rage of time, It keeps the fragrance of its prime. Come, lyrist, join to sing the birth Of this sweet offspring of the earth! When Venus from the ocean's bed... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 lehte
...its odours shed A pleasing fragrance o'er the dead. And when its withering charms decay, And sinking, fading, die away, Triumphant o'er the rage of time, It keeps the fragrance of its prime." The Romans, too, were so fond of the rose that they left legacies in their wills so that their tombs... | |
 | Thomas Meehan - 1882 - 406 lehte
...it-ч odors shed, A pleasing fragrance o'er the dead. And when its withering charms decay. And sinking, fading, die away, Triumphant o'er the rage of time, It keeps the fragrance of its prime." Happily for us, the present halcyon time in which we live is appropriately designated " the age of... | |
 | Thomas Meehan - 1882 - 438 lehte
...it-s odors shed, A pleasing fragrance o'er the dead. And when its withering charms decay. And sinking, fading, die away, Triumphant o'er the rage of time, It keeps the fragrance of its prime." Happily for us, the present halcyon time in which we live is appropriately designated "the age of flowers."... | |
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When pain afflicts, or sickness grieves, Its juice the drooping heart relieves; And, after death, its odours shed A pleasing fragrance o'er the dead; And when its withering charms decay, And sinking, fading, die away; Triumphant o'er the rage of time,... 
