 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 ページ
...application to the season adds to its interest at the pre«ent time. AUTUMN. BY WILLlAM CULLKN BBYANT. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the summer leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying wind, and... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 ページ
...guardian care Will he in man's support forbear, Who thus provides for thine. -Field Naturalisfs Magazine. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...brown and sere. 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... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 ページ
...fast thy buried isles, thy towers o'erthrown, — But all is not thine own ! 109. THK CLOSE OF AUTUMN. THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 ページ
...lines of four and three feet are employed. The above lines might have been written in this manner : — The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year,...winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sere. Trochaic verse. Our shortest trochaic verse has one trochee, with a long syllable. EXAMPLE. Dreadful... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 ページ
...song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Semi Iambuses. The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. The robin and the wren have flown, and from the shrub the jay, And from the wood top caws * the crow,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 ページ
...That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. tieven Iambuses. The melancholy, days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows'brown and sere. The robin and the wren have flown, and from the shrub the jay, And from the... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 ページ
...Augustus defeated Anthony.* Ambition often drives men to do the meanest actions. 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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 ページ
...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... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 ページ
...earthly homes we dwell, Then life with all its dreams shall be but as that passing bell. E. CARRINGTON. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...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 gnst... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 ページ
...earthly homes we dwell, Then life with all its dreams shall be but as that passing bell. E. HARRINGTON. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. THE melancholy days are...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... | |
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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... 
