 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...  The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine - Page 485edited by - 1825Full view - About this book
 | 1844 - 400 pages
...their soothing influence ? rates as a string to tie the earth to the 8un and keep it in its orbit. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead. The robin and the wren are... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 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... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pages
...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... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...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... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...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... | |
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