 | 1835 - 700 pages
...springs unseen, O'er columbines in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. ' Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. ' Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue— blue— as... | |
 | 1879 - 1042 pages
...springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest ; Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds...and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky — Blue, blue as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall.' These lines evince clearly... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 228 pages
...violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frost and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds...and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1832 - 244 pages
...springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as... | |
 | 1834 - 402 pages
...springs unseen, O'er columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue— as... | |
 | 1834 - 406 pages
...eolumbine*, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden ne<(. f Thou waitest late, and eom'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy nreet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue— as... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1835 - 248 pages
...springs unseen, Or columbines in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare, and birds...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end, Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as... | |
 | 842 pages
...springs unseen ; When columbines, in purple drestj Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest : Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare, and birds...are flown ; And frosts and shortening days portend Tin • aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the... | |
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The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye, Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. 
