 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...  The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Page 92by William Cullen Bryant - 1903 - 418 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Elbridge Gerry Paige - American wit and humor - 1857 - 362 pages
...two and last six lines. So mote it be ! THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. TEXT. — Where are the flowcrt, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood...and softer airs a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they are all in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and... | |
 | Agnes Catlow - Botany - 1857 - 412 pages
...nature-loving cultivator, the time must come, and ever comes too soon, when it may be said with Bryant : — " Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that...sprang, and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beanteous sisterhood ? The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1858 - 506 pages
...season, I can sigh — * Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood hi brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood...with the fair and good of ours. * * * * * * * 'The wind-flower, and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and orchis died amid the summer... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...robin aad the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow, through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprung and stood, In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ! Alas ! they all are in... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1858 - 242 pages
...And from the wood top caws the crowThrough all the gloomy day. 4. Where are the flowers, the young, That lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs — A beauteous sisterhood ? 5. Alas ! they all are in their graves ; The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lonely beds,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...and from the shrnb the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow, through all the gloomy day. When are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood The rain is fulling where they lie ; but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...crow, Through all the gloomy day. 2. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, That lately sprung and stood In brighter light and softer airs, A beauteous...The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly bed, Wife the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie; But the cold November rain... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 238 pages
...robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair...flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair arid good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...from the wood top calls the crow, Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprung and stood, In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas I they all are in their graves — the gentle race of flowers Are lying hi their lowly beds, with the... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1897 - 330 pages
...robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay^ And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair...rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier rose and the orchis died amid... | |
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