 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 psl.
...the mart Nor the cunning hoard up in his treasury. -V OPPORTUNITY. HE who bends to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy ; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe ; But if once... | |
 | Annie Fields - 1881 - 292 psl.
...qualities, we are reminded by a verse from William Blake : — "He who bends to hia life a joy, Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in eternity's sunrise." Of his helpfulness the world has often spoken, but it may not be out of place to say, that if money... | |
 | Five minutes daily readings - 1882 - 408 psl.
...green earth, And took the flowers away. LONGFELLOW. n. OPPORTUNITY. HE who bends to himself a. joy Does the winged life destroy ; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe ; But if once... | |
 | Edward Phillips Scrymgour - 1882 - 200 psl.
...him through the perils of disturbing cross-currents. *O No/zos opyrjv Kar ov 6e €7r\eovao'eii rj He who bends to himself a joy Doth the winged life destroy, He who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. Blake. REDEMPTION. WHAT is genuine Christianity... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 378 psl.
...passiveness." William Blake suggests a similar lesson when he says,— '' He who bends to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy : But he who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise." The toys of the imagination, the playthings of the fancy, are very brittle. You cannot trap them any... | |
 | 1883 - 410 psl.
...green earth, And took the flowers away. LONGFELLOW. n. OPPORTUNITY. HE who bends to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy ; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe ; But if once... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 374 psl.
...passivcness." William Blake suggests a similar lesson when he says, — " He who bends to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy : But he who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise." The toys of the imagination, the playthings of the fancy, are very brittle. You cannot trap them any... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 psl.
...it once is smiled There 's an end to all misery. X. OPPORTUNITY. HE who bends to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy ; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. UPON GROWING OLD. BY J. HAP FRISWELL. \ JOHN FOSTER, (he who sprung into celebrity from one essay,... | |
 | William Blake - 1885 - 302 psl.
...morning I went, As rosy as morn, To seek for new joy, OPPORTUNITY. TTE who bends to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy ; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe : But, if once... | |
 | William Blake - 1885 - 330 psl.
...as morn, To seek for new joy, But I met with scorn." OPPORTUNITY. HE who bends to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy ; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe But, if once... | |
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. 
