 ... 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...  Poems - Seite 143von William Cullen Bryant - 1875Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1879 - 1042 Seiten
...give for the purpose of showing one of the peculiarities of his poems, written in boyhood : ' I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I deport.' Bryant was a man of wealth and position ; but he did not live for the gratification of self.... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 228 Seiten
...fringes to the sky, 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...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. In Dr. Bigelow's Plants of Boston and its vicinity, three sorts or species of Gentian are described;... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1832 - 244 Seiten
...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 The hour of death draw...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. Bryant. WITH WILD FLOWERS TO A SICK FRIEND. Rise from the dells where ye first were born, From the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...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 The hour of death draw...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as 1 depait. THE CROWDED STREET. LET me move slowly through the street, Filled with an ever-shifting train,... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 Seiten
...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 The hour of death draw...within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart." The poem "To a Cloud" is full of rich and delicate description, indeed it is one of the most delightful... | |
 | 1834 - 402 Seiten
...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 The hour of death draw...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. FATHERS. IT is the spot I came to seek, — My fathers' ancient burial-place, Ere from these vales,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1835 - 248 Seiten
...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 The hour of death draw...within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. THE MERMAID'S SONG. COME, mariner, down in the deep with me, And hide thee under the wave ; For I have... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 Seiten
...A flower from its cerulean wall. " I would that thus, when I shall see The hours of death draw nigh to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart." We miss among the selections from Bryant an old favourite of ours, " The New Moon." Surely the grave... | |
 | 1835 - 572 Seiten
...A flower from its cerulean wall. ' I would that thus, when I shall see The hours of death draw nigh to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to Heaven as I depart.' We miss among the selections from Bryant an old favourite of ours, ' The New Moon.' Surely the grave... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1836 - 434 Seiten
...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 The hour of death draw...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. BRYANT. TO THE TRAILING ARBUTUS.* Thou comest when Spring her coronal weaves, And thou hidest thyself... | |
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