| Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the wild-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the golden-rod,...the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now, when comes the calm, mild day, as still such days will... | |
| Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the wild-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the golden-rod,...the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now, when comes the calm, mild day, as still such days To... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 280 pages
...long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died, Amid the summer glow ; THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. 147 But on the hill the golden-rod, And the aster in the...the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, From upland glade and glen. And now, when comes the calm, mild day, As still such days will... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 286 pages
...brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; 258 THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. But on the hfll the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the...the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen. And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...onfcs again. The wind-flower and the violet, They perish'd long ago, And the brier rose and the orchis died, Amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the golden-rod,...fell the frost from the clear, cold heaven, As falls tho plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone From upland, glade, and glen. And now,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, They perish'd long ago, And the brier rose and the orchis died, Amid the summer glow; But on the hill the golden-rod, And the nster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook In autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...again. The wind-flower and the violet, They perish'd long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died, But on the hill the golden-rod, And the aster in the...the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, From upland, glade, and glen. And now, when comes the calm, mild day, As still such days... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the briar rose and the orchis died amid the summer's glow; But on the hill the golden-rod and the aster...the yellow sun-flower by the brook in Autumn beauty • Till fell the 'frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightneM... | |
| American periodicals - 1872 - 858 pages
...decay and weakness can only arise through this unconscious comparison with the same in ourselves. " Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, As falls the plague on men." Mrs. Browning draws from the familiar object, — a shadow cast on running waters, — a sad but just... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the wild-wise and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the golden-rod,...the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now, when comes the calm, mild day, as still such days will... | |
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