 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
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...I do it. Adam. Thus I follow thee, As erewhile in the sin. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. By WC BRYANT. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Pleap'd in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | 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 naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1855 - 320 pages
...heaven's wide-open gates did flow Health and refreshment on the world below. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. 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 autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...fast thy buried isles, thy towers o'erthrown, — But all is not thine own ! 109. THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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 and... | |
 | Caroline Leigh Gascoigne - 1855 - 376 pages
...NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOURS. CHAPTER I. ' O Death ! how thou spoil'st the best project of life !' PRIOR. ' The melancholy days are come — the saddest of the...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 gust,... | |
 | 1855 - 902 pages
...and Marshall College has been received. VOL. VI.— NOVEMBER, 1855.— No. XI. APRELUDE TO WINTER. " 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 ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
 | 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,...wailing 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... | |
 | 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 and... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pages
...had passed the age of seventy. He retained his powers and his activity till the close of his life. 1. 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 autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
 | 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,...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,... | |
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