 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pages
...most popular of the modern American poets. He has been for some years the editor of a New York paper. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere, Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...by the virtue of that simple shield. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. — Bryant. THE melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
 | Gift books - 1851 - 388 pages
...winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Hcap'd in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbits' tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay, And from the wood-top... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...from the trumpet's mouth is peal'd The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. Tur. melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...and sear. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, The withcr'd leaves lie dead ; They rustic to the eddying gust, And to the rabbit's tread. The robin and... | |
 | Select poetry - 1855 - 80 pages
...the circle of my nest, I learn to pity those that roam, And love the more my humble home." BOWLES. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and... | |
 | Gardening - 1907 - 562 pages
...William Cullen Bryant characterises November in the following lines : — " The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere." How different is all this in Florida, where, in November, the days are bright and sunny, cheerful... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...had passed the age of seventy. He retained his powers and his activity till the close of his life. 1. THE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...winds, and naked woods, And meadows, brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, The autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, And... | |
 | Donald Hall - American poetry - 1985 - 266 pages
...warbler soar'd, And from the everlasting hills, A song of rapture pour'd. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 1794-1878 The Death of the Flowers The melancholy days are come,...wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, the wither'd leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying... | |
 | René Jules Dubos, Jean Dubos - Health & Fitness - 1987 - 320 pages
...Several decades later autumn still meant to William Cullen Bryant that . . . The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. It is this heaviness of heart that led the consumptive Swiss philosopher, Henri Amiel, to infect nature... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...moon! ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The long glories . . . long is the word. Why? The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Melancholy is good. Wailing winds. An intriguing word, melancholy. It comes... | |
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Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.... 
