 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...  Standard Supplementary Readers - Page 70edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | 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,...and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, They rustle... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 pages
...here. Another hand thy sword shall wield, Another hand the standard wave, THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...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 gust,... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...application to the season adds to its interest at the pre«ent time. AUTUMN. BY WILLlAM CULLKN BBYANT. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the summer leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying wind, and... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...fast thy buried isles, thy towers o'erthrown, — But all is not thine own ! 109. THK CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 pages
...lines of four and three feet are employed. The above lines might have been written in this manner : — The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sere. Trochaic verse. Our shortest trochaic verse has one trochee, with a long syllable. EXAMPLE. Dreadful... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 pages
...support forbear, Who thus provides for thine. -Field Naturalisfs Magazine. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. The melancholy days have 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. They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
...That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. tieven Iambuses. The melancholy, days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows'brown and sere. The robin and the wren have flown, and from the shrub the jay, And from the... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pages
...Augustus defeated Anthony.* Ambition often drives men to do the meanest actions. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and...and sear. 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...by the virtue of that simple shield. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. — Bryant. THE melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and...and sear. 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... | |
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