 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...  Poems - Page 257by William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1855 - 318 pages
...celestial clime ! As if from heaven's wide-open gates did flow Health and refreshment on the world below. 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 autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1855 - 320 pages
...celestial clime ! As if from heaven's wide-open gates did flow Health and refreshment on the world below. 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 autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 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,...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... | |
 | Conduct of life - 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,...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... | |
 | 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...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 Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame. Forest Hymn. The groves were God's first temples. The Death of the Flowers. The melancholy days are...winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. The Battle-Field. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again : The eternal years of God are hers ; But... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...forth a glorious voice, For ever singing, as they shine, The hand that made us is divine ! ADDISOX. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
 | Horticulture - 1856 - 462 pages
...Corroeas, Coronilla, Justicias, Poinsettias, Erantheimims, ALMANACK.] DECEMBEB, 1856. 87 DECEMBER. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing winds , and naked woods, and meadows brown and were. Heaped in the hollow of the grove, the withered leaves lic dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...And deeply would their hearts rejoice To hear again his living voice. Tin in. VI II OF Tire FLOWF.E8. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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,... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - Education - 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,...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 a... | |
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