 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 էջ
...specimens of this the best of American poets — so we give the following pretty piece entire : — THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. The melancholy days are...winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. Heup'd in the hollows of the grove, Tpe wither'd leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 էջ
...of the firmament, The boundless visible smile of Him, To the veil of whose brow our lamps are dim. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...wailing 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 278 էջ
...may read. — Death bring thee rest, poor bird. 13 THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. BY WILLIAM C. BRYANT. THE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, The wither'd leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
 | The Dublin University Magazine.VOL.XXII July to December,1843 - 1843 - 770 էջ
...so we give the following pretty piece entire : — THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. The melancholy days arc come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, The wither'd leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
 | 1844 - 400 էջ
...their soothing influence ? rates as a string to tie the earth to the 8un and keep it in its orbit. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, They rustle to the eddying gust, and... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 էջ
...those who fell in battle here. Another hand thy sword shall wield, Another hand the standard wave, THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, The wither'd leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 էջ
...application to the season adds to its interest at the pre«ent time. AUTUMN. BY WILLlAM CULLKN BBYANT. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the summer leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying wind, and... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 էջ
...guardian care Will he in man's support forbear, Who thus provides for thine. -Field Naturalisfs Magazine. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...wailing 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... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 էջ
...lines of four and three feet are employed. The above lines might have been written in this manner : — The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sere. Trochaic verse. Our shortest trochaic verse has one trochee, with a long syllable. EXAMPLE. Dreadful... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 էջ
...fast thy buried isles, thy towers o'erthrown, — But all is not thine own ! 109. THK CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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... | |
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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... 
