 O'er wandering brooks and 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 are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near...  American Literature - Page 251edited by - 1926 - 604 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1844 - 684 pages
...rH, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest, Thou wnitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bore and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days...its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall sec The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart.... | |
 | 1850 - 144 pages
...woods are bare, and birds are down, And frosts, and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye, Look through...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. BRYANT. GIFT FOR THE HOLIDAYS. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1851 - 380 pages
...columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waifr;st late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. " THE TWENTY-SECOND OF DECEMBER. WILD was the day ; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New-England's strand,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1852 - 356 pages
...are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. FADING AUTUMN. 275 Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. Mrs. EC Kinney. PTU-IE autumnal glories all have passed away ! The forest leaves no more in glowing... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1853 - 240 pages
...columbines, in purple dress'd, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and comest alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts...within my heart. May look to heaven as I depart." Persia, the native country of Q. septemfida, or the Crested Gentian, is a well-known country of Asia.... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1853 - 246 pages
...columbines, in purple dress'd, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and comest alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts...within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart." Persia, the native country of G. septemjlda, or the Crested Gentian, is a well-known country of Asia.... | |
 | 1854 - 362 pages
...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 are flown, And frosts...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. Mrs. EC Kinney. HPHE autumnal glories all have passed away ! The forest leaves no more in glowing red... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Biue— blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from its...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I deport. OH, FAIREST OF THE RURAL MAIDS Он, fairest of the rural maids ! Thy birth was in the forest... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 pages
...columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nejjt. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. LXXH. — THE MOSS ROSE. THE Angel of the flowers one day Beneath a rose tree sleeping lay; — That... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...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 are flown, And frosts...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. MY DOVES.— Miss Barrett. MY little doves have left a nest Upon an Indian tree, Whose leaves fantastic... | |
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