 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...  Choice Literature - Seite 2551912Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1835 - 700 Seiten
...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...cerulean wall. ' I would that thus, when I shall see The hours of death draw nigh to me, Hope, blossoming within ray heart, May look to Heaven as I depart.'... | |
 | 1879 - 1042 Seiten
...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...that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall.' These lines evince clearly enough that Bryant had a special gift for natural description. The last... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 228 Seiten
...woods are bare and birds are flown, And frost and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye, Look through...Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower frpm its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1832 - 244 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1834 - 402 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1834 - 406 Seiten
...are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy nreet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky,...blue— as if that sky let fall A flower from its eerulean wall. • I would that thus, when I shall seC • The hour of death draw near to me, • Hope,... | |
 | 842 Seiten
...are bare, and birds are flown ; And frosts and shortening days portend Tin • aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through...its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall sec The hours of death draw nigh to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to Heav'n as I depart."... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 Seiten
...woods are bare and birds are Sown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is 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. " I would that thus, when I shall see... | |
 | 1835 - 510 Seiten
...the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night " — " Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky." — Bryant. Gentidna sapondria Soap Gentian. A very fine plant, distinguished by its long purple flowers,... | |
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