 Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good...  Readings in American Poetry - Page 146by Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 506 pages
...flowers, that smiled beneath the feet, Of hues so passing beautiful, and breath so passing sweet ? Alas, they all are in their graves — the gentle...with the fair and good of ours : The rain is falling on their graves — but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck - Gift books - 1827 - 332 pages
...young flowers, that lately sprung and stood, In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas ! they all are in their graves — the gentle...lovely ones again. The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier rose and the orchis died, amid the summer's glow ; But on the hill... | |
 | Medicine - 1828 - 646 pages
...lately sprung and stood In brighter light and sotler airs, a beauteous sisterhood. Alas! they are all in their graves,— the gentle race of flowers Are...is falling where they lie,— but the cold November ruin Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely one again. The wildflower and the violet, they... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas! they all are in their graves—the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds,...fair and good of ours: The rain is falling where they lie—but the cold November sprung and stood, rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones... | |
 | 1829 - 606 pages
...and parent soar at once Toward heaven, then part, nor know each other more ! THE PARSONAGE. " AlaŤ ! they all are in their graves — the gentle race of flowers, Are lying in theit lowly beds, with the lair and good of ours." THE interesting month of October has again arrived,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...young flowers, that lately sprung and stood, In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in their graves — the gentle...is falling where they lie— but the cold November ram , summer'i Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again. The windflower and the violet,... | |
 | Southern States - 1832 - 542 pages
...young flowers that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer years, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race...lovely ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the briar-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the... | |
 | Southern States - 1832 - 534 pages
...flowers that lately sprang and stood A In brighter light and softer years, a beauteous sisterhood tb Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race...Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, the lovely ones agam. The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the briar-rose and the orchis died... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1832 - 244 pages
...flowers That lately sprung and stood, 111 brighter light and softer airs, A beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; The gentle race...their lowly beds, With the fair and good of ours. The Tain is falling where they lie; But the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, The... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1833 - 180 pages
...the crow, through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately \ they all are in their graves ; the gentle race of...lovely ones again. The wind'flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the... | |
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