| William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...did flow Health and refreshment on the world below. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and... | |
| 1847 - 540 pages
...beams, Sheds gently down a mild and grateful warmth. CARLOS WILCOX. 17. The melancholy days are o'er, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. 18. The dead leaves strew the forest walk, And wither'd are the pale wild flowers ; The frost hangs... | |
| Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...shall be but as that passing bell. E. HARRINGTON. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing 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... | |
| 1847 - 490 pages
...the wind, and strew the grave of the dead." To use the words of Bryant : "The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere ; He ip'd in the hollows of the grove, the wither'd leaves He dead, They rustle in the eddying... | |
| Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...shall be but as that passing bell. E. CARRINGTON. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing 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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 456 pages
...no hope above ! The Death of the Flowers.— BRYA.NT. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest cf the year, Of wailing 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... | |
| Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...death has deflowered her eye. HK WHITE. LESSON CCXII. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, Of 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 gust,... | |
| Louisa Fisher Hawes - 1848 - 396 pages
...against the casement. I thought continually of Bryant's words on autumn, " The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere." But I thank God, that a year has taught me better lessons. How quickly this summer has passed!... | |
| M. A. H. - 1849 - 160 pages
...he was with Jesus, And she asked him not again ! THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of 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 gust,... | |
| 1849 - 854 pages
...? Then to Him, fluttering spirit, to Him ! DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. BY BRYANT. 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 withered leaves lie dead, Tl.ey rustle to the eddying... | |
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