 THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed,...  Swinton's Supplementary Readers - Page 13edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | 1835 - 700 pages
...with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night, ' Thou comest not when violets lean, O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, O'er columbines in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. ' Thou waitest late and com'st... | |
 | Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night ; Thoa comest not when violets lean 0 er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines,...and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky — Blue, blue as if... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Literary and scientific class book, Author of - 1830 - 228 pages
...with the heaven's own blue ! That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frost and... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks...and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1832 - 244 pages
...Brainard. To THE FRINGED GENTIAN. That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night : Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...with the heaven's own blue, That openest, when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 406 pages
...eolumbine*, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden ne<(. f Thou waitest late, and eom'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And...portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy nreet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue— as if that sky let fall A... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...coloured with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean, O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, O'er columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st... | |
 | 842 pages
...when the violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen ; When columbines, in purple drestj Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest : Thou waitest...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 fringes to the... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1835 - 1138 pages
...wilh the heaven's own blue, Thut openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night, " Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. " Thou waitcst late and com'st alone, When woods are... | |
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