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 Poets of America - Página 213editado por - 1840Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 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... | |
| Noble Butler - 1846 - 268 páginas
...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...and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren arc flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the. crow, through all the gloomy... | |
| Noble Butler - 1846 - 272 páginas
...naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves Ho dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are llown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top ealls the crow, through' all the gloomy day.... | |
| 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,... | |
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