 Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed,...  An English Grammar - Page 33by John Benjamin Wisely - 1906 - 377 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jennie Ellis Keysor - 1895 - 210 pages
...flowers, from the yellow violet "that Spring first plants in the watery mould," to the blue gentian, " That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night." As he gazes at our great prairies, his song is not of their vastness or their abundant crops, but it... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...beauteous race the last. d. BRYANT — November, Thou blossom ! bright with autumn dew, And colour'd think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? j. JOHN HEYWOOD — Idleness. I live e. BRYANT — To the Fringed Gentian. Along this quiet wood road, winding slow, When free October ranged... | |
 | Frances Lucia Strong, Martha Allen Lane, Margaret Lane - 1896 - 152 pages
...stem is round and smooth, and I have one single large flower. THE GENTIANS. " Bryant says of me — 'Thou blossom, bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.' " My flower does not stay open all day. It closes in the afternoon. " I have a bitter juice, and am... | |
 | Emma J. Todd - 1896 - 522 pages
...meadow brooks or swampy lowlands, expanding in the warm sunlight of midday, the flower-seeker may find a blossom —- " bright with autumn dew And colored with the heaven's own blue," the fringed gentian — the Lucy flower or flower of light, the flower which Miss Bartlett declares... | |
 | 1897 - 660 pages
...dimness, nights of sorrow! О lessening light! О lengthening night! О morn forlorn and hopeless morrow!" TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. Thou blossom bright with autumn...the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and comest alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown And frosts and short'ning days portend The aged... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pages
...the beautiful order of thy works Learn to conform the order of our lives. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN.1 THOU blossom, bright with autumn dew, And colored...lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen. Or columbines,2 in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st... | |
 | Annie Chase - 1897 - 168 pages
...grow." — Bryant. ID,', TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. Thou blossom bright with morning dew, And covered with the heaven's own blue, That openest, when the...quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou coniest not when violets lean O'er wandering1 brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines in purple dressed,... | |
 | 1899 - 248 pages
...held near. clois' ter de" 96nt dgign &s signed' flour' Ish Ing pr5b' a bly & sun' dor j6al' ous ies TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. Thou blossom bright with autumn...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,... | |
 | 1899 - 250 pages
...held near. «lois' ter de" £6nt dgign as signed' flour' Ish Ing prob' a bly a sun' der j5al' ous ies TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. Thou blossom bright with autumn...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,... | |
 | 1917 - 456 pages
...chee. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT fHOU blossom, bright with morning dew, And colour'd with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the...brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dress'd, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are... | |
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