 | John W. Curtis - American poetry - 1846 - 180 pages
...LINES ON THE DEATH OF MRS. MARY KNOX. _ ' In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest casts the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers." „. BRYANT. . I. I WILL ask some gentle angel, From the regions of the blest, In some elegy unearthly... | |
 | 1846 - 436 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, aind so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. THE CORAL GROVE. THE CORAL GROVE. — Percival.... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 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 TEARS OF SCOTLAND. MOURN, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish' d peace, thy laurels torn ! Thy... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 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. ROMERO. WHEN freedom, from the land of Spain, By Spain's degenerate sons was driven, Who gave their... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's poetry - 1847 - 310 pages
...earth we laid her When the forests 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...gentle and so beautiful, Should perish with the flowers !" Time, with its healing wing passed by, but the memory of Edith was still cherished by me, with the... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 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. BRYANT. THE TEARS OF SCOTLAND. MOURN, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 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 Skies. — BRYAWT. AY, gloriously thou standest there, Beautiful, boundless firmament ! That, swelling... | |
 | Benjamin B. Bowen - Blind - 1847 - 470 pages
...those so lovely should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that they, like those young friends of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. BKYANT. To most persons the idea of death seems to shroud the soul in gloom, and hence the grief that... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...as the spot | where I was born. 2. In the cold moist earth | we laid. her ;| when the forest | cant the leaf, And we wept | that one so lovely || should...young friend of ours, So gentle | and so beautiful, II should perish | with the flowers. 5. The observance of the succession of accented and unaccented... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1848 - 284 pages
...earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one BO lovely should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that...So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowera. Bryant, TO THE PASSION FLOWER.* ' And the faint Passion Flower, the sad and holy, Tell of... | |
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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... 
