 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...  The Sprague Classic Readers: Book 1-5 - Page 18by Sarah E. Sprague - 1904Full view - About this book
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 346 pages
...brooks and springs unseen ; Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are...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... | |
 | Daniel R. Shafer - 1881 - 728 pages
.... . . Transport — Ecstacy. Geuuuu, Fringed . . Intrinsic worthF KINGED GKNTIAS. Intrinsic worth. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its...that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. — BRTANT. Geranium, Apple . . Present preference. Geranium, Ivy . . Tour hand for next dance. Geranium,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, iu purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest : o. "If to fair India's coast we sail, Thy agdd year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue—... | |
 | 1912 - 480 pages
...brooks and springs unseen, Or 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 frost and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Doing good is the only certainly happy... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1881 - 44 pages
...brooks and springs unseen, Or 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, 10 And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest : titud« comes, even those wo behold, To repeat every tale that ha aro flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The agild year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1883 - 388 pages
...brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are...that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. ut soar £fjf. "ZZ HYMN OF THE CITY. NOT in the solitude Alone may man commune with Heaven, or see,... | |
 | 1883 - 440 pages
...brooks and springs unseen Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are...— blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from ita cerulean walL I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1881 - 272 pages
...take his poems of the " Yellow Violet" and "The Fringed Gentian." Of this last flower he says : — " Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are...shortening days portend The aged year is near his end." The fringed gentian belongs to September, and, when the severer frosts keep away, it runs over into... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 396 pages
...columbines, in purple dress'd, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest ; Thou waitest late, and comest alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And...The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet arid quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky : Blue, blue as if that sky let fall A flower from... | |
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