 | Elocution - 1901 - 616 pages
...sister (read last four lines of the poem). How fine a landscape is condensed into the two lines : " When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all...twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill." Stoddard calls it " an immortal dirge." Take the following lines from " The Antiquity of Freedom :... | |
 | James Jesse Burns - English language - 1901 - 174 pages
...call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south-wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood... | |
 | James Jesse Burns - English language - 1901 - 172 pages
...now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south-wind searches for the flowers whose... | |
 | Edna Henry Lee Turpin - Readers - 1902 - 432 pages
...when comes the calm, mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping...flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to rind them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1902 - 782 pages
...squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; Green When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, Tkt*gs though all the trees are still, ° And twinkle in...to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. • • « • . WIIJJAM Cri^zx BRYAXT. Autumn t M'trth Tis all a myth that Autumn grieves, For, watch... | |
 | Mrs. Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggins, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1916 - 784 pages
...heard, Things though all the trees are still, 0 And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the if rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose...to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. • » * » • WILLIAM CULLEN BRVANT. Autumn's Mirth 'Tis all a myth that Autumn grieves, For, watch... | |
 | American periodicals - 1902 - 820 pages
...lived, for smell or ornament ; And. after death, for cures." The time has come, and all too soon, when "The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore. And sighs to find them in the woods and by the, stream no more." The frost-nipped sumach warms the sombre hillside with its crimson... | |
 | Quotations, American - 1902 - 416 pages
...the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood," " When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, tho' all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill." Winter gives us the pure frost-crystals and the snow, and the glad Christmas-time. God, in His love... | |
 | American poetry - 1902 - 778 pages
...squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; Green When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, Things though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the f rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1902 - 772 pages
...squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; Green When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, Things though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the I" rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them... | |
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And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the... 
