 | 1915 - 349 lehte
...HUNT, "Abou Ben Adhem" "THE TEN CHIEF SINS" Resist the devil, and he will fly from you. — THE BIBLE But small the "bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid l>eauty groves and fields appear, Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 918 lehte
...succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom f Heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of Morn, when sh Inxuriance from the planter's toil; While seaborn gales their gelid wings expand 121 To winnow fragrance... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1916 - 86 lehte
...in torrid tracts appear, 115 Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives that blossom but to die ; These, here disporting, own the kindred...soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; 120 While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small... | |
 | 1862
...succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky, With vernal lives that blossom but to die : These, here disporting, own the kindred...Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-borne gales their gentle wings expand, To scatter fragrance round the smiling land.' The Dutch... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 385 lehte
...succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky, With vernal lives that blossom but to die; These here disporting, own the kindred...that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all this nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear, Men seem the only growth that dwindles... | |
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Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's... 
