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,... Poems - Page 204by William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1835 - 700 pages
...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...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... | |
| 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,...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 - Literary and scientific class book, Author of - 1830 - 228 pages
...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 shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye,... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1832 - 244 pages
...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...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... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...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...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... | |
| American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...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...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... | |
| 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...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 — blue— as... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children - 1835 - 248 pages
...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...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... | |
| 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
...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... | |
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