 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...earth we laid her, When the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely Should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one, Like that...young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, 136 137 THE WINDS. Yi winds, ye unseen currents of the air, Softly ye play'da few brief hours ago ;... | |
 | Eliza Ann Munroe Bacon - Christian life - 1842 - 164 pages
...faded and withered children of summer, I felt with the poet that ' Yet not unmeet it was, that one, _ Like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, Should perish with the flowers.' She needed but a little change to be made an angel, and an angel surely she is in the holy courts of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...earth we laid her, When the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely Should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one, Like that...and so beautiful, Should perish with the flowers. The following are perhaps the best lines in the collection. They occur in an address to the evening... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...earth we laid her, When the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely Should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one, Like that...and so beautiful, Should perish with the flowers. 'PASS ON, RELENTLESS WORLD." BY GEORGE LUNT. SWIFTER and swifter, day by day, Down Time's unquiet current... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief l Yet not unmeet it was, that one, like that young friend...gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers ! DANIEL O'CONNELL. SlNCE the receipt of the intelligence of the arrest of O'CONNELL by the British... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...earth we laidfcher, When the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely Should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one, Like that...young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, TO THE PAST. THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure... | |
 | Rebecca Shepard Nichols - American poetry - 1844 - 236 pages
...wept that one so lovely, should have a lot so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that sweet friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers!" OUR hearts are stricken with a holy grief, For lo! a star hath left our household sphere, And laid... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side. In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers, BRYANT. 110. THE CORAL GROVE. DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...earth we laid her, When the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely Should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one, Like that...and so beautiful, Should perish with the flowers. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 137 THE WINDS. YE winds, ye unseen currents of the air, Softly ye play'da few... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 846 pages
...earth we laid her when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; Yet not unmeet it was that one like that...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. — BKYANI. CHAMBERS'S MISCELLANY. OTAMEERS'S > 5T2ACIS sWILLIAM ANU ROBERT CHATMBERS CONTENTS OF VOLUME... | |
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And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side : In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast... 
