| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1849 - 310 pages
...Bancroft. — (Translated from the German.) DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. Th* melancholy days are come, the saudest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in ihe hollow of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
| Conduct of life - 1863 - 896 pages
...tone, we quote, as suitable to this season of the year, Bryant's beautiful Poem on THE DKATH OF Till FLOWERS. The melancholy days arc come, the saddest...wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere, Heaped in the hollow of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
| Louisa Fisher Hawes - 1850 - 396 pages
...against the casement. I thought continually of Bryant's words on autumn, " The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing 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... | |
| Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 pages
...not robbed at all. Othello — Act 3, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. MAKE A MUMMY. 139. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of 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... | |
| Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pages
...not robbed at all. Othello — Act 3, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. MAKE A MUMMY. 139. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of 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... | |
| Religious poetry - 1850 - 300 pages
...around us lowers, We 'll look from earth to heaven. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. 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 eddying gust... | |
| American literature - 1918 - 798 pages
...the same, we give it without hesitation. It is — THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. The melancholy days are come. The saddest of the year. Of wailing winds and...wither'd leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gnst, And to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, And from the shrub* the jay, And... | |
| Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, Of 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 gust,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...did flow Health and refreshment on the world below. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of 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, and... | |
| John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - American literature - 1851 - 504 pages
...1S51. No. 5. LIFE OF MAN AND OF THE YEAR. NOVEMBER. BY HENRIETTE A. HADBY. " 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,... | |
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