...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 are flown, And frosts...cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see Green The hour of death draw near to me, Things Hope, blossoming within my heart, ° May look to heaven...

...and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then dost thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. TOM BROWN AT RUGBY1 resent 2 close introduced pursuit matron patronizing assented vigorous astonishment...

...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 are flown, And frosts...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. THE TWENTY-SECOND OF DECEMBER. WILD was the day ; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New-England's strand,...

...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 are flown And frosts...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. William Cull en Bryant. THE mighty oak's concentric ring Counts well each oft-recurring spring ; —...

...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 are flown, And frosts...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. An elegiac quality is pronounced in the familiar " Death of the Flowers," simple almost to bareness,...

...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 are flown, And frosts...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. THE SEA-POPPY. A POPPY grows upon the shore Bursts her twin cup in summer late:...

...wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. — William Cullen Bryant. By permission of D. Appleton & Co., Publishers. THE GENTLEMAN. The gentleman...

...near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue—blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. 27. WOLFERT'S ROOST By Washington Irving WASHINGTON IRVING (born April 3, 1783 ; died Nov. 28, 1859)...

...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 are flown, And frosts...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. 1829. 1832. 1 Compare with this poem Wordsworth's * To the Small Celandine,' and others. Notice that...

...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 are flown, And frosts...blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. 1829. 1832. 1 Compare with thia poem Wordsworth'" ' To the Small Celandine,1 and others. Notice that...