Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown. And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky... Young People's Story of American Literature - Página 113por Ida Prentice Whitcomb - 1922 - 402 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 páginas
...ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eve Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue—blue—as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean... | |
| Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1892 - 626 páginas
...frosts and short days show that the old year is nearly ended, and still we have the gentian olossoms." " Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its...that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall." "Just as if the blue flower dropped from the blue wall of the sky, it is so delicate and so blue. '... | |
| 1889 - 1038 páginas
...of sleeping beauty, but there are few lovelier than is afforded in our own fringed gentian. " Thus doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky," sings Bryant in his beautiful tribute to this flower — a sentiment which is true of the blossom by... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 páginas
...woods are bare, and birds are tlown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as 1 depart. THE BATTLE-FIELD. ONCE this soft turf, this rivulet's sands. Were trampled by a hurrying... | |
| Samuel Adams Drake - 1890 - 408 páginas
...change we dread so much. " Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare, and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year...that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall." All summer we have seen the peripatetic Indian pulling up the sweetgrass with which the squaws make... | |
| Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 416 páginas
...ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone When woods are bare, and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged Year...Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue, blue as though that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour... | |
| James Vila Blake - 1890 - 376 páginas
...ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and coin st alone, When woods are bore and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year...and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue—blue—as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. If now I have made plain this... | |
| Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - 1890 - 232 páginas
...its cerulean wall. Thou waitest late, and coins' t alone. When woods are bare and birds have flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart;... | |
| William Hamilton Gibson - 1890 - 212 páginas
...of sleeping beauty, but there are few lovelier than is afforded in our own fringed gentian. " Thus doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky," sings Bryant in his beautiful tribute to this flower — a sentiment which is true of the blossom by... | |
| Samuel Adams Drake - 1891 - 412 páginas
...change we dread so much. "Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare, and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year...that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall." All summer we have seen the peripatetic Indian pulling up the sweetgrass with which the squaws make... | |
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