 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 506 pages
...meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side ; In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forests cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. B. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. MR. GRISCOM, one of the Associate Principals of the NewYork High School,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck - Gift books - 1827 - 332 pages
...earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a lot so brief; Yet not unmeet it was, that one, like that...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. THE CASCADE OF MELSINGAH. WHO does not know the little cascade of Melsingah ? If any of my readers... | |
 | Lucretia Maria Davidson - 1829 - 224 pages
...earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely, should have a lot so brief; Yet not unmeet it was, that one, like that...beautiful, should perish with the flowers." Bryant. NEW YORK. G. & C. & H. CARVILL,— 108 BROADWAY. 1829. .- 3 '. ? ; .-. •'. EXCHANGE SOUTHERN DISTRICT... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a lot so brief; Yet not unmeet it was, that one, like that...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. SAMUEL WEBBER Is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the son of the late President of Harvard... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the And we wept that one so lovely should have a lot so brief; Yet not unmeet it was, that one, like that...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. HYMN TO THE NORTH STAR. THE sad and solemn night Has yet her multitude of cheerful firea ; The glorious... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...moist earth we laid her, when the forwt cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a lot so brief; Yet not unmeet it was, that one, like that...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. LINES ON A SKULL. BEHOLD this ruin ! — 'twas a skull, Once of ethereal spirit fiill. This narrow... | |
 | Southern States - 1832 - 542 pages
...n0 more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair, meek-blossom that grew and faded by my side : In the cold moist earth we...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers." There are very many pieces in the volume of an analogous character, that might properly be classed... | |
 | Theology - 1832 - 424 pages
...grew up and faded by my side : In the cold moist earth we laid her when the forest cast the leaf, And wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.' pp. 35, 36. This could not, of course, have been omitted in Mr. Cheever's collection. Of this collection... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1833 - 180 pages
...for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful...it was, that one, like that young friend of ours, LESSON XV. Hurricane in Demerara — HARRIET MARTINEAIT. / THERE was a mass of clouds towering in a... | |
 | 1833 - 522 pages
...faded by my side, In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept, lhat one so lovely should have a life so brief; Yet not...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. We would love to examine the crania, (and we have furnished such in onr country,) of those writers,... | |
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And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side : In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief : Yet not... 
