 FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread....  Popular poems, selected by E. Parker - Seite 104von Elizabeth Parker (editor.) - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 Seiten
...lines of four and three feet are employed. The above lines might have been written in this manner:— The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sere. Trochaic verse. Our shortest trochaic verse has one trochee, with a long syllable. EXAMPLE. Dreadful... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 Seiten
...song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Seven Iambuses. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. The robin and the wren have flown, and from the shrub the jay, And from the wood top caws * the crow,... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 Seiten
...dwell, Then life with all its dreams shall be but as that passing bell. K. CARRINGTON'. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest...winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere; Heap'd in the hollows of the grove the wither'd leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust and... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 Seiten
...dwell, Then life with all its dreams shall be but as that passing bell. E. CARRINGTON. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest...winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere; Heap'd in the hollows of the grove the wither'd leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 Seiten
...from heaven's wide-open gates did flow Health and refreshment on the world below. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest...wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 Seiten
...riot On heavenly diet, When death has deflowered her eye. HK White. LESSON CCXII. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. The melancholy days are come, The saddest...wailing winds, and naked woods. And meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove The withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | 1847 - 490 Seiten
...the wind, and strew the grave of the dead." To use the words of Bryant : "The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere ; He ip'd in the hollows of the grove, the wither'd leaves He dead, They rustle in the eddying gust,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1847 - 470 Seiten
...song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Seven lambuset. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. The robin and the wren have flown, and from the shrub the jay, And from the wood top caws * the crow,... | |
 | 1848 - 124 Seiten
...thy early leaves I find A lesson taught by Him who loved all human kind. JONES VERY. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, The saddest...wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, The wither'd leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | Louisa Fisher Hawes - 1848 - 396 Seiten
...chill night wind whistling against the casement. I thought continually of Bryant's words on autumn, " The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere." But I thank God, that a year has taught me better lessons. How quickly this summer has passed! Let... | |
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