... are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty... Southern Review - Seite 4521831Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1832 - 420 Seiten
...grew up and faded by my side : In the cold moist earth we laid her when the forest cast the leaf, And wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.' pp. 35, 36. This could not, of course, have been omitted in Mr. Cheever's collection. Of this collection... | |
| Eliza Ann Munroe Bacon - 1842 - 164 Seiten
...the leaves that were covering the faded and withered children of summer, I felt with the poet that ' Yet not unmeet it was, that one, Like that young friend...and so beautiful, Should perish with the flowers.' She needed but a little change to be made an angel, and an angel surely she is in the holy courts of... | |
| Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge - 1842 - 298 Seiten
...to dust and ashes to ashes," he saw only the flowers, strewn by loving hands over her coffin! " Oh not unmeet it was that one, like that young friend...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers." COUNTRY WEDDINGS. Oil. I pr'ythee, who doth he trot withal ? Ros. Marry, he trots hard with a young... | |
| Eliza Ann Munroe Bacon - 1842 - 164 Seiten
...faded and withered children of summer, I felt with the poet that ' Yet not unmeet it was, that one, _ Like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, Should perish with the flowers.' She needed but a little change to be made an angel, and an angel surely she is in the holy courts of... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 Seiten
...more. And then I think of one who in Her youthful beauty died, The fair, meek blossom that grew up And faded by my side ; In the cold, moist earth we...and so beautiful, Should perish with the flowers. The following are perhaps the best lines in the collection. They occur in an address to the evening... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 Seiten
...more. And then I think of one who in Her youthful beauty died, The fair, meek blossom that grew up And faded by my side ; In the cold, moist earth we...and so beautiful, Should perish with the flowers. "PASS ON, RELENTLESS WORLD." BY GEORGE LUNT. SWIFTER and swifter, day by day, Down Time's unquiet current... | |
| Readings - 1843 - 466 Seiten
...more. And then I think of one, who in her youthful beauty died, The fair, meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side: In the cold. moist earth we...and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Is a very pleasing writer. He has not written much; but what he has written is... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 Seiten
...more. And then I think of one who in Her youthful beauty died, The fair, meek blossom that grew up And faded by my side; In the cold, moist earth we...unmeet it was that one, Like that young friend of ourt, So gentle and so beautiful, 13fi 137 THE WINDS. Ys winds, ye unseen currents of the air, Softly... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 Seiten
...died, The fair, meek blossom that grew up And faded by my side ; In the cold, moist earth we laidfcher, When the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one...young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, TO THE PAST. THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure... | |
| Rebecca Shepard Nichols - 1844 - 236 Seiten
...bowers, And point me in the gathered throng, my own loved, earthly flowers ! TO THE MEMORY OF AMANDA. " In the cold, moist earth we laid her, when the forest...leaf, And we wept that one so lovely, should have a lot so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one, like that sweet friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful,... | |
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