 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
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 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 race...not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again. *This reading — caws, instead of calls — is sanctioned by the gifted author. 3. The wind-flower... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1852 - 384 pages
...softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of floweri Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good...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... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - Flower language - 1852 - 330 pages
...fair 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 lonely beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie : but the cold November... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1852 - 250 pages
...flowers, That lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs — A beauteous sisterhood ? 8. Alas ! they all are in their graves ; The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lonely beds, With the fair and good of ours. 6. The rain is falling where they lie ; But the cold November... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...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 resting in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours : The rain is falling where they lie ;... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 344 pages
...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...not from out the gloomy earth The lovely ones again. 3. The wall-flower and the violet, They perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the + orchis died... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - Elocution - 1853 - 580 pages
...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...from out the gloomy earth, The lovely ones again." 5. — Melancholy. [From Verses to a Departed Friend.] OWB Peabody. " The sun hath set in folded clouds,... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - Suffering - 1853 - 290 pages
...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...November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth The lonely ones again. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. 175 The windflower and the violet, They perished long... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Children - 1853 - 350 pages
...In brighter light and softer airs, A * beauteous + sisterhood? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; Are lying in their lowly beds, With the fair and good...not from out the gloomy earth The lovely ones again. 8. ^The wall-flower and the violet, Tliey perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the + orchis died... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...flowers, that lately sprung and stood, In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ! Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race...beds, with the fair and good of ours, The rain is ialling where they lie, but the cold November rain, Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, the lovely... | |
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