 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...look On all these living pages of God's book. 1845. James Russell Lctcell. 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,... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - 1923 - 808 pages
...peculiar power to men, but not the same message. Many find it a season of poignant, though quiet sorrow. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. They are reminded of what once was, but is no more ; that might have been, but was not so to be. The... | |
 | 1927 - 84 pages
...sensing of the mood of the poet and then expressing it in his own tongue. The first stanza of the poem : The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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... | |
 | Paul Thomas Manchester - 1927 - 76 pages
...sensing of the mood of the poet and then expressing it in his own tongue. The first stanza of the poem : The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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... | |
 | 1927 - 490 pages
...Titles 446 Index of Authors 453 The Death of the Flowers * THE melancholy days are come, the saddpsj. of the year — Of 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,... | |
 | Mason Long - 1928 - 344 pages
...15. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly Most musical, most melancholy. — JOHN MILTON 16. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...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. — WILLIAM CULLEN... | |
 | Elizabeth Nitchie - 1928 - 422 pages
...fruitfulness" ; Shelley greets the "wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being"; Bryant writes, The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,...winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Again how much of the personality of the writer is to be seen in each interpretation: Keats' joy in... | |
 | Lyman Abbott, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy - 1901 - 1162 pages
...FLOWERS OF LATE AUTUMN WITCH-HAZEL BY J. HORACE McFARLAND ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR " The melancholy days are come, The saddest of .the...winds and naked woods And meadows brown and sere." [ESE oft-quoted lines I repeat here only to take issue with them. To the true nature-lover no outdoor... | |
 | George W. Porter - 1929 - 250 pages
...was wont to do, When hopes were young, and life itself was new." Even when "The Meloncholy days have come, the saddest of the year. Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear." It has a cherry sweetness in its song, and seems loath to leave us for its Southern home. The... | |
 | Edgar Simmons Buchanan, Philip Hanson Hiss - 1929 - 312 pages
...near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, the meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle... | |
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The melancholy days are 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 autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread... 
