 Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good...  The Rover - Page 118edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Gift books - 1851 - 380 pages
...beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain...from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again. The Wind-flower and the Violet, they perish'd long ago, And the briar Rose and the Orchis died amid the... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pages
...beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves : the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain...from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the wild-rose and the orchis died amid the... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...beauteous sisterhood ? Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain...from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, they perish'd long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 350 pages
...gentle race of flowers Are lying in their holy beds, With the fair and good of ours. % IV. •• • The rain is falling where they lie ; But the cold...from out the gloomy earth The lovely ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, They perislrd long ago, And the wild-rose and the orchis died Amid the... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain...falling where they lie, but the cold November rain The wind flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1855 - 318 pages
...beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain...from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...sisterhood ! Alas ! they all are in their graves — the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours: The rain...from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, they perish'd long ago, And the brier-rose, and the orchis died, amid the... | |
 | Animals in literature - 1855 - 120 pages
...beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, With the fair and good of ours. The rain...from out the gloomy earth, The lovely ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, They perish'd long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died, Amid the... | |
 | Select poetry - 1855 - 80 pages
...sprang and stood Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain...from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago. And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain...falling where they lie, but the cold November rain The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid... | |
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