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
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1848 - 584 Seiten
...mouth is peal'd The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THF. melancholy days arc come, The saddest of the year, Of 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... | |
| M. A. H. - 1849 - 160 Seiten
...sorrow did restrain, For she knew he was with Jesus, And she asked him not again ! 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... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 468 Seiten
...That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. iSeven 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,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 448 Seiten
...thee, no hope above! The Death of the Flowers.—Bryant. The melancholy days are come, the saddest cf the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, the wifher'd leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
| Ebenezer Bailey - 1850 - 422 Seiten
...fathers gray, Writes in his own dust—' Passing away.' LESSON XVI. The Death of the Flowers.—Bryant. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow, through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the... | |
| Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 Seiten
...him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. Othello—Act 3, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. MAKE A MUMMY. 139. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollow of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's... | |
| 1850 - 340 Seiten
...grave devours, When all the world around us lowers, We '11 look from earth to heaven. 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... | |
| 1850 - 300 Seiten
...grave devours, When all the world around us lowers, We '11 look from earth to heaven. 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... | |
| Louisa Fisher Hawes - 1850 - 388 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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1850 - 770 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,... | |
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