| Select poetry - 1855 - 80 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. WC BRY ANT. PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS. I OWN I am shocked at the purchase of slaves, And fear those who... | |
| Animals in literature - 1855 - 120 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. SELECT POEMS KINDNESS TO ANIMALS WORK-HORSES IN A PARK ON SUNDAY. •-•FH'I'•i. I •... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1855 - 318 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...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... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 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...So gentle, and so beautiful, should perish with the THE CORAL GROVE. — Percival. DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish... | |
| Benson John Lossing - Men - 1890 - 312 pages
...laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a lot so hrief ; Yet not unmeet it was, that one, like that young friend...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers." — BRYANT. " TPHERE is no record." says Dr. Sparks, "of a greater prematurity of intellect, -L or... | |
| Margaret Casson - Women authors - 1855 - 256 pages
...wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; i Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that dear friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers." BKYXST. IT is an often spoken truism, how fast time flies ; but in .1 monotonous life, I appeal to... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...c-.ist the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely Should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was thnt one, Like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful. 182 183 THE FUTURE LIFE. How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps The disembodied spirits of... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...earth we laid her, when the forests cost 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. OH, FAIMST OF THI Kl r.At. HUM. Oh, fairest of the rural m:iidsl Thy birth was in the forest shades... | |
| mrs. J Cooke Westbrook - 1856 - 160 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...So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the Sowers." BBTANT. " Go to the grave and sing, In prospect of the time When those we mourn, aloft shall... | |
| 1008 pages
...wept, that one so lovely should hare • life so brk'f. Yet nut unmeet it was, that one like that yonng friend of ours. So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. •• THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. IT cannot be denied that Oriental modes ef saluting a monarch are vastly... | |
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