 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - 1825 - 506 trang
...intellectual courage displayed in agitating this important and interesting subject. CHARLES WATTS. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove the summer leaves lie dead, They rustle to the eddying wind,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck - 1827 - 332 trang
...cup they mingled, strengthened thee For the great work to set thy country free. THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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... | |
 | 1828 - 646 trang
...it several French chemists, and pre- of its ligneous color. From the Talisman. THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing 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... | |
 | 1829 - 436 trang
...power, The passions and the cares that wither life, And waste its little hour. THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing 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... | |
 | Lyre - 1830 - 396 trang
...touch'd, will 'yield the music yet, it first received of thee. THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN. BY WILLIAM C. BRYANT. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, the wither'd leave* lie dead, They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 trang
...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days anTcome, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere. Heap'd in the hollews of the grove the wither'd leaves lie dead, They rustle to the eddying gust... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1832 - 244 trang
...Or an angel had ne'er set mine image before thee. L. Bancroft.— (Translated from the German.) 18* THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. The melancholy days are...wailing winds and naked woods, And meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollow of the grove, The withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | 1832 - 542 trang
...While my lady sleeps in the shade below." The '• Death of the Flowers" is as poetical as its title. " The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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 gust,... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 trang
...panting for thy purer air, Fly up at once and fix me there. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy daya are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing 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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 180 trang
...thousand distinct muscles in the trunk of an elephant ! LESSON XIV. The Death of the Flowers. — BRYANT. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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 gust,... | |
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Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.... 
