 THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. Come, months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest...  The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 147by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...its stainless glory set, flail linger, though enjoy'd, like joy in memory yet December, 1818. AUTUMN: THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare houghsare si^hing.the pale flowers aredying, And the year ">" the earth her death-bed, in a shroud... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...shrine Thou yieldest or withholdest, Oh let be This City of thy worship, ever free ! AUTUMN: Í DIRGE. THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale Sowers are And the year [dying, On the earth her deathbed, in a shroud of leaves Is lying. [dead, Come,... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 1054 pages
...reign closes the varying year. Cheerless enough is the external aspect of Nature in December, ** When the warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the sad flowers are dying, And ihe year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying."... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...! She faded — but in heaven her spring Of bloom shall perish never ! AUTUMN. A DIBGE. By SHELLEY. THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are signing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 pages
...clay, active in knocking each other down, but not disposed to help each other up." AUTUMN— A DIRGE. THE warm sun is failing ; the bleak wind is wailing...year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre. The chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling, The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 614 pages
...clay, active in knocking each other down, but not disposed to help each other up." AUTUMN— A DIRGE. THE warm sun is failing ; the bleak wind is wailing...dead cold year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulehre. The chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling, The rivers are swelling, the thunder... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, [dying; The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud...year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre. The chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling, The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 770 pages
...sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, [dying; The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Come, months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest array ; Follow the bier Of the dead... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pages
...proceeds, And wildness triumphs when her bloom is past." Nor is Shelley's Dirge less touchingly beautiful : The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing,...year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre. The chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling, The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...strange and painful scene his fancy was continually dwelling. In a gentle moment we have a dirge — " The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing,...year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre. The chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling, The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling... | |
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