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" O'er wandering brooks and springs 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, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near... "
Flowers from foreign lands; their history and botany - Page 71
by Robert Tyas - 1853
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...piece we give for the purpose of showing one of the peculiarities of his poems, written in boyhood : ' I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I deport.' Bryant was a man of wealth and position ; but he did not live for the gratification of self....
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A Selection of Reading Lessons for Common Schools: Designed to be Used After ...

Levi Washburn Leonard - Literary and scientific class book, Author of - 1830 - 228 pages
...quiet eye, Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower frpm its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. In Dr. Bigelow's Plants of Boston and its vicinity, three sorts or species of Gentian are described;...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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. And...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as 1 depait. THE CROWDED STREET. LET me move slowly through the street, Filled with an ever-shifting train,...
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Flora's Interpreter, Or The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1832 - 244 pages
...woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. Bryant. WITH WILD FLOWERS TO A SICK FRIEND. Rise from the dells where ye first were born, From the...
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The American Quarterly Observer, Volume 1

Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through...within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart." The poem "To a Cloud" is full of rich and delicate description, indeed it is one of the most delightful...
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Selections from the American Poets: With Some Introductory Remarks

American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. FATHERS. IT is the spot I came to seek, — My fathers' ancient burial-place, Ere from these vales,...
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The Parent's Present

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children - 1835 - 248 pages
...woods are bare, and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end, Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. THE MERMAID'S SONG. COME, mariner, down in the deep with me, And hide thee under the wave ; For I have...
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Poems

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 288 pages
...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, And...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. " INNOCENT CHILD AND SNOW-WHITE FLOWER." INNOCENT child and snow-white flower ! Well are ye paired...
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The Book of Flowers

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flowers in literature - 1836 - 434 pages
...woods are bare, and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. BRYANT. TO THE TRAILING ARBUTUS.* Thou comest when Spring her coronal weaves, And thou hidest thyself...
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Flora's Interpreter, Or, The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1838 - 282 pages
...near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue—blue—as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall....blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. Bryant. TO THE TRAILING ARBUTUS * Thou comest when Spring her coronal weaves, And thou hidest thyself...
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