 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...  Poems - Page 214by William Cullen Bryant - 1851 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gardening - 1835 - 510 pages
...the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night " — " Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky." — Bryant. Gentidna sapondria Soap Gentian. A very fine plant, distinguished by its long purple flowers,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flowers in literature - 1836 - 434 pages
...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, and birds...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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1838 - 282 pages
...springs unseen, /Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest.; f Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare, and birds...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... | |
 | Animals - 1839 - 204 pages
...springs unseen, Or columbines, in scarlet dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. " Thou waitest late, and com'st alone When woods are bare and birds...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 —... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 294 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...woods are bare and birds are flowii) And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through...that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. BRYANT. KELIGION OF ANCIENT GREECE. IN that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1844 - 684 pages
...rH, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest, Thou wnitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bore and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days...its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall sec The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart.... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...spring! 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 and birds...and shortening days portend The aged year is near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through it> fringes to the sky, Blue— blue— as... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...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...that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. 104 MY DOVES. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming... | |
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