 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...Through endless generations, The art that calls the harvest forth, And feeds the expectant nations. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. The melancholy days are...and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...hnnd the standard wave, Till from the trumpet's mouth is peal'd The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. Hcap'd in the hollows of the grove, The wither'd leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | Lucy Hooper - Flower language - 1842 - 304 pages
...sings your requiem all the day, And mourns because ye pass away. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. BRYANT. THE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...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,... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...of the firmament, The boundless visible smile of Him, To the veil of whose brow our lamps are dim. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...and sere, Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...specimens of this the best of American poets — so we give the following pretty piece entire : — THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. The melancholy days are...wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. Heup'd in the hollows of the grove, Tpe wither'd leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...may read. — Death bring thee rest, poor bird. 13 THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. BY WILLIAM C. BRYANT. THE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, The wither'd leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 286 pages
...tree. Close thy sweet eyes, calmly, and without pain ; And we will trust in God to see thee yet again. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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... | |
 | The Dublin University Magazine.VOL.XXII July to December,1843 - 1843 - 770 pages
...so we give the following pretty piece entire : — THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. The melancholy days arc come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, The wither'd leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...those who fell in battle here. Another hand thy sword shall wield, Another hand the standard wave, THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, The wither'd leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1844 - 400 pages
...their soothing influence ? rates as a string to tie the earth to the 8un and keep it in its orbit. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead. The robin and the wren are... | |
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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 autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin... 
