THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. 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... McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader - Page 117by William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 506 pages
...and interesting subject. CHARLES WATTS. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are come — the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove the summer leaves lie dead, They rustle to the eddying wind,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck - Gift books - 1827 - 332 pages
...thee For the great work to set thy country free. THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of 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 gust... | |
| Medicine - 1828 - 646 pages
...and pre- of its ligneous color. From the Talisman. THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of 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... | |
| Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...and dream for aye; And leave the vain low strife THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days are come. the saddest of the year, Of 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 gust... | |
| Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...it first received of thee. THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN. BY WILLIAM C. BRYANT. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere. Heap'd in the hollows of the grove, the wither'd leave* lie dead, They rustle to the eddying... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. THE CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days anTcome, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere. Heap'd in the hollews of the grove the wither'd leaves lie dead, They rustle to the eddying gust... | |
| Theology - 1832 - 424 pages
...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 gust,...tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow, through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers,... | |
| Southern States - 1832 - 542 pages
...below." The '• Death of the Flowers" is as poetical as its title. " The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked...and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and... | |
| Southern States - 1832 - 534 pages
...Flowers" is as poetical as its titl£ il The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, af1 j 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, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and... | |
| A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...purer air, Fly up at once and fix me there. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy daya are come, the saddest of the year, Of 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... | |
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