- Bolton & Co. Verse:
- 274
- Full Text
- The fairest forms that nature shows
Sustain the shortest doom
Beauty is like the morning rose
That withers in its bloom
- Listed on Page Number
- 288
- Sampler Worked By
- Mary Tyler
- Date of Sampler
- 1804
- Place Sampler Made
- Boston, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 232
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- De Malherbe, François. “Consolation A M. Du Perier Gentil-Homme D’Aix en Provence sur la mort de sa fille 1599,” Œuvres Poétiques De Malherbe Réimprimées sur L’Édition De 1630, Prosper Blanchemain (Ed.). Paris: Librairie Des Bibliophiles, 1877, p. 93 See also: Pluche, Noël-Anton. Spectacle de la Nature. Translated by Mr. Humphreys, 5th ed., vol.2, London: R Francklin, C. Davis and J. Pemberton, 1740, p. 16 See also: Demarville. The Young Lady’s Introduction to Natural History…London: S. Bladon and T. Caslon, 1766, p. 212.
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Holman, Asneth, 1806, n.p., pg.174;
Laird, Margaret, c.1809, n.p., pg.185.
Malherbe: https://archive.org/details/uvrespotiquesde00blangoog
Pluche:https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_spectacle-de-la-nature_pluche-nol-antoine_1740_2
Although an English translation of this poem by François De Malherbe, may have appeared earlier, these selected lines appear in a Noël-Antoine Pluche’s Spectacle de la nature by this 1740 5th English translated edition. This was a popular nature textbook of the time.
In 1766 it appears with The Young Lady’s Introduction to Natural History…London: S Bladon and T. Caslon, 1766, pg. 212. the variation copied by our stitcher where “shortest doom” replaces of the original phrase,“sharpest doom.”