 In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.  The Fourth Reader - Page 108by William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 248 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 506 pages
...flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty...And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief., Yet not unmeet it was, that one like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck - Gift books - 1827 - 332 pages
...flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty...side. In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a lot so brief; Yet not unmeet it... | |
 | 1828 - 244 pages
...flowers, whose fragrance late he bore, Aud sighs to find them in the field, and by the stream no more. And then I think of one, who in her youthful beauty...— In the cold, moist earth, we laid her, when the tempest cast the leaf — And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief: — Yet not uumeet... | |
 | Medicine - 1828 - 646 pages
...the woods and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beaulv died, A he fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by "my side, in the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a lot so brief; let not unmeet it... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty...side. In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a lot so brief; Yet not unmeet it... | |
 | Lucretia Maria Davidson - 1829 - 224 pages
...a Biographical Sketch, By SAMUEL FB MORSE, AM "In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf; And we wept that one so lovely, should have a lot so brief; Yet not unmeet it was, that one, like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful,... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty...side. In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forwt cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a lot so brief; Yet not unmeet it was,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no mora^ \ i And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty...side. In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the And we wept that one so lovely should have a lot so brief; Yet not unmeet it was, that... | |
 | Theology - 1832 - 424 pages
...flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. ' And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty...side : In the cold moist earth we laid her when the forest cast the leaf, And wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; Yet not unmeet it was,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1832 - 244 pages
...flowers Whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood And by the streams no more, And then I think of one who in Her youthful beauty...side : In the cold moist earth we laid her, When the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely Should have a life so brief; Yet not unmeet it... | |
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