Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good... Southern Review - Page 4511831Full view - About this book
| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 502 pages
...sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove the summer leaves lie dead, They rustle to the eddying wind, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren...through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the bright young flowers, that smiled beneath the feet, Of hues so passing beautiful, and breath so passing... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck - Gift books - 1827 - 332 pages
...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...are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprung and stood, In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas ! they all are in... | |
| Medicine - 1828 - 646 pages
...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. Where...the flowers, the fair young flowers, t-hat lately sprung and stood In brighter light and sotler airs, a beauteous sisterhood. Alas! they are all in their... | |
| 1829 - 436 pages
...the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the And from the wood top calls the crow, through all the gloomy day. Where...are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprung and stood, In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in... | |
| Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...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. Where...are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprung and stood Alas ! they all are in their graves — the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jtj, And from the wood top calls the crow, through all the gloomy day. Where...are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprung and stood, In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in... | |
| Theology - 1832 - 424 pages
...to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow, through...are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprung and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas ! they all are in... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1832 - 244 pages
...eddying gust, And to the rabbit's tread. ^ The robbin 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 young fair flowers That lately sprung and stood, 111 brighter light and softer airs, A beauteous sisterhood... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1833 - 180 pages
...eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the iay. And from the wood-top calls the crow, through all...are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately \ they all are in their graves ; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the... | |
| American literature - 1834 - 320 pages
...winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere, Heap'd in the hollows of the groves, the wither'd leaves lie dead — They rustle to the eddying gust...wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day." I have a theory of marriages. There should be none — or few — in Autumn. Spring, when Nature puts... | |
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