| John Hall - 1845 - 354 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 206 páginas
...life with all its dreams shall be but as that passing bell. E. CARRINGTON. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. 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 gnst... | |
| Book - 1847 - 216 páginas
...life with all its dreams shall be but as that passing bell. E. HARRINGTON. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. 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... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 páginas
...heaven's wide-open gates did flow Health and refreshment on the world below. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. 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 autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust,... | |
| 1847 - 490 páginas
...the wind, and strew the grave of the dead." To use the words of Bryant : "The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere ; He ip'd in the hollows of the grove, the wither'd leaves He dead, They rustle in the eddying gust,... | |
| 1847 - 540 páginas
...beams, Sheds gently down a mild and grateful warmth. CARLOS WILCOX. 17. The melancholy days are o'er, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, And meadows brown and sear. 18. The dead leaves strew the forest walk, And wither'd are the pale wild flowers ; The frost... | |
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