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... University of Ottawa Review - Page 3461905Full view - About this book
| 1847 - 540 pages
...beams, Sheds gently down a mild and grateful warmth. CARLOS WILCOX. 17. The melancholy days are o'er, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. 18. The dead leaves strew the forest walk, And wither'd are the pale wild flowers ; The frost... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 456 pages
...no hope above ! The Death of the Flowers.— BRYA.NT. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest cf the year, Of 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 gust,... | |
| Louisa Fisher Hawes - 1848 - 396 pages
...chill night wind whistling against the casement. I thought continually of Bryant's words on autumn, " The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere." But I thank God, that a year has taught me better lessons. How quickly this summer has passed! Let... | |
| Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...heavenly diet, When death has deflowered her eye. HK WHITE. LESSON CCXII. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...wailing 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... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1848 - 284 pages
...mine image before thee. L. Bancroft. — (Translated from the German.) DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. Til.-* melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped In the hollow of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust and... | |
| 1849 - 854 pages
...thy pure spring of joy ? Then to Him, fluttering spirit, to Him ! DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. BY BRYANT. The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...winds and naked woods, And meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, The withered leaves lie dead, Tl.ey rustle to the eddying gust... | |
| M. A. H. - 1849 - 160 pages
...did restrain, For she knew he was with Jesus, And she asked him not again ! THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing 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... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1849 - 310 pages
...Bancroft. — (Translated from the German.) DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. Th* melancholy days are come, the saudest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in ihe hollow of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust and... | |
| Louisa Fisher Hawes - 1850 - 396 pages
...chill night wind whistling against the casement. I thought continually of Bryant's words on autumn, " The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere." But I thank God, that a year has taught me better lessons. How quickly this summer has passed ! Let... | |
| Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 pages
...him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. Othello — Act 3, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. MAKE A MUMMY. 139. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollow of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
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