 | Monomaniac - 1878 - 448 lehte
...altogether visited the earth in vain. Death may destroy the loved, but ' love is strong as death.' ' You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still' The bereaved mother who has lost the dear little object of her tender... | |
 | Annie Trumbull Slosson - 1878 - 286 lehte
...followed, and the host and hostess were soon left alone. Charlie Baker only lingering to whisper to me, " You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But it teas made in China, I'll hang to it still." Well, we never met again. The charm seemed broken, the... | |
 | Florence Marryat - 1879 - 166 lehte
...when, they do meet, be it only by a flash of the eye, their whole secret lies as open as the day. " You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will ; But the scent of the roses will hang round it still ; " and in like manner you may put a mask upon your face and a curb... | |
 | Thomas Moore, John Francis Waller - 1879 - 572 lehte
...long be my heart with such memories fill'd ! Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill'dYou may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. ON MUSIC. WHEN thro' life unblest we rove, Losing all that made life... | |
 | James Payn - 1879 - 346 lehte
...may shake [I forget the exact words of the little poem, but they are to this effect], you may shake, you may shatter the vase if you will, but the scent of the roses will cling round it still. Carker sometimes inquires in his rude way: *But what is the tone?... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 74 lehte
...her labors, but her works will follow her. ' Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled, You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang 'round it still !' " The coffin was carried to the hearse by near relatives, the carriages... | |
 | Mrs. W. H. White - 1880 - 410 lehte
...Long be our hearts with such memories filled Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled. You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang 'round it still." And the world had not lost all its brightness to them. They were... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1880 - 642 lehte
...be my heart with such memories filled ! Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. OH ! DOUBT ME NOT. OH ! doubt me not — the season Is o'er when Folly... | |
 | 1880 - 698 lehte
...thee still1" the Union which can never be destroyed in the affections of the American people. Yes, " You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still." But these anticipations have not been and are not to be realized.... | |
 | Francis Francis - 1880 - 328 lehte
...different sort of creature altogether, though still a sort of popular sympathy hung to him — for You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the poacher will cling round him still. And so it comes to pass that the veriest ruffian who is a simple... | |
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Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. 
