 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
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 350 pages
...place in the forest, Sear, a. (by, withered. I Glen, n. a valley, a dale. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. 1. THE * melancholy days are come, The saddest of the...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 robbin... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 pages
...automaton-like utterance which is sometimes exemplified in the school style of reading such pieces.] THE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, They rustle to the eddying gust, And to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, And from... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 344 pages
...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, And to the rabbit's tread. The robbin and the wren have flown, And from the shrub the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow Through... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...light. (4) Lattice— a window made of grate- work — (5) Hues— tints. THE DEATH OP THE FLOWERS. " The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing 0) winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere (2) Heap'd in the hollows of the grove the wither'd... | |
 | 1854 - 456 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... | |
 | 420 pages
...the Pleasaunce as of her life it might be said — " The melancholy days are come, The saddest ojr the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, And meadows brown and sere." moment as of old ; and then ? Then she must leave all — alone, friendless, despairing ; she... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1911 - 332 pages
...—Franklin. Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin, so merry, draws them out. — Wolcot. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. — Bryant. Look for goodness, look for gladness. You will meet them all the while; If you bring a... | |
 | 1907 - 562 pages
...William Cullen Bryant characterises November in the following lines : — " The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere." How different is all this in Florida, where, in November, the days are bright and sunny, cheerful... | |
 | Donald Hall - 1985 - 266 pages
...everlasting hills, A song of rapture pour'd. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 1794-1878 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. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, the wither'd leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | René Jules Dubos, Jean Dubos - 1987 - 320 pages
...Several decades later autumn still meant to William Cullen Bryant that . . . The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. It is this heaviness of heart that led the consumptive Swiss philosopher, Henri Amiel, to infect nature... | |
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