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" IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black water with their beauty... "
The Ladies' Companion - Page 43
1857
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Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, Volume 2

Essex Institute - 1860 - 364 pages
...gather the beautiful Rhodora Canadcnsis. "Spreading its leafless Ыоошз in a damp nook, VOL. II. 2 To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in tho pool, Make thu black water with their beauty gay; Hero might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,...
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Folk Songs

John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower...
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Festival of Song: A Series of Evenings with the Poets

Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower...
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A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...sluggish brook ; The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 5 Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods Spreading its leafless answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest...where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like tji waters with their beauty gay, — Hera might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower...
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New Cyclopaedia of Poetical Illustrations: Adapted to Christian Teaching ...

1872 - 710 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods Spreading its leafless ure, Is frozen, in the very flush of youth, Into a...cold, care-fretted, heartless man. And what is its rew fgay — Hade the black waters, with their beauty Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,...
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Songs of Nature

1873 - 296 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, 1 found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black waters with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower...
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Quiet Hours: A Collection of Poems

Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pages
...sea-winds pierced our solitudes, •*- I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages...
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Old and New, Volume 9

Edward Everett Hale - 1874 - 802 pages
...thick and even where not interfered with by the growth of the swamp-oaks. " Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish hrook, The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beanty gay: Here might...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the...The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black waters with their beauty gay, — Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower...
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