 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...  Floral poesy - Page 226by Floral poesy - 1875Full view - About this book
 | 1835 - 700 pages
...columbines in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. ' Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. ' Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue— blue— as... | |
 | 1879 - 1042 pages
...columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest ; Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And...that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall.' These lines evince clearly enough that Bryant had a special gift for natural description. The last... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 228 pages
...woods are bare and birds are flown, And frost and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye, Look through...Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower frpm its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1832 - 244 pages
...columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as... | |
 | 1834 - 402 pages
...columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue— as... | |
 | 1834 - 406 pages
...eolumbine*, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden ne<(. f Thou waitest late, and eom'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy nreet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue— as... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1835 - 248 pages
...Or columbines in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare, and birds are flown, And...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end, Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 pages
...woods are bare and birds are Sown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. " Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue— blue—as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. " I would that thus, when I shall see... | |
 | 842 pages
...columbines, in purple drestj Nod o'er the 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 Tin • aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the... | |
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