 TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines,...  Saint Jospeh Medical Herald - Page 6191904Full view - About this book
 | 1835 - 700 pages
...author draws a moral even from the flower. ' Thou blossom, bright with autumn dew, And coloured with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light...violets lean, O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, O'er columbines in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. ' Thou waitest late and com'st... | |
 | 1879 - 1042 pages
...Gentian, will be always read with interest : ' Then blossom, bright with autumn dew, And coloured with the heaven's own blue ; That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night ; Thoa comest not when violets lean 0 er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 228 pages
...her. LESSON 32. To the Fringed Gentian. Thou blossom, bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue ! That openest when the quiet light...brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frost and... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1832 - 244 pages
...best, That freshest will awake, and sweetest go to rest ? /. Gf. C. Brainard. To THE FRINGED GENTIAN. That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen...brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...Fringed Gentian," which we quote entire. " Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest, when the quiet light...brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are... | |
 | 1834 - 402 pages
...leave the ground. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom, bright with autumn dew, And coloured with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light...violets lean, O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, O'er columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st... | |
 | 1834 - 406 pages
...ground. BRYANT. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. \ THOU bloHom, bright with autumn dew, And eoloured with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and fro-ty night. Thou eomest not when violets lean, O'er wandering brooks and springs unKen, O'er eolumbine*,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1835 - 248 pages
...of earth and sky. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light...brooks and springs unseen, 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,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 pages
...from the flower. " Thou blossom, bright with autumn dew And coloured wilh the heaven's own blue, Thut openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and...brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. " Thou waitcst late and com'st alone, When woods are... | |
 | 842 pages
...gentian, now to be found abundantly : — " Thou blossom, bright with Autumn dew, And colour'd with the Heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night : Thou contest not when the violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen ; When columbines, in purple... | |
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