 | 1904 - 1070 strani
...murmuring by ; Thus quietly thy summer goes, Thy days declining to repose. From morning scenes and evening dews At first thy little being came: If nothing once,...between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. This, however, is not better than two equally felicitous stanzas taken from a poem which is otherwise... | |
 | Richard Burton - 1904 - 344 strani
...Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. From morning suns and evening dews ( At first thy little being came : If nothing...between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. That last line has a touch of the true magic of expression. From among his contemporaries who wrote... | |
 | Richard Burton - 1904 - 340 strani
...Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came : If nothing once,...between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. That last line has a touch of the true magic of expression. From among his contemporaries who wrote... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - 1904 - 312 strani
...and autumn's power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. Trumbull's From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came; If nothing once,...between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. The most popular satirist of the Revolutionary period was not Freneau, but John Trumbull, of Connecticut... | |
 | 1904 - 704 strani
...Unpitying frosts and Autumn's power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came; If nothing once,...between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. Professor Pattee is to be congratulated upon the completeness and scholarly quality of this doubtless... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1905 - 394 strani
...Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power, Shall leave no vestige of this flower. From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came; If nothing once,...between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. Such verses are tenderly beautiful, if not great. The author was honored by the appropriation verbatim... | |
 | James Brady Smiley - 1905 - 354 strani
...Unpitying frosts and Autumn's power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. " From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came; If nothing once,...between is but an hour; The frail duration of a flower." Freneau was a popular poet in his day, as is attested by the fact that Campbell and Scott did not hesitate... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 308 strani
...frosts, and Autumn's power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. l8 From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came : If nothing once,...between, is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. 24 1786. Philip Freneau. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1905 - 404 strani
...Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power, Shall leave no vestige of this flower. From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came; If nothing once,...between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. Such verses are tenderly beautiful, if not great. The author was honored by the appropriation verbatim... | |
 | John Raymond Howard - 1905 - 350 strani
...Unpitying frosts and Autumn's power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came ; If nothing once,...between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower. TIMOTHY DWIGHT 2 Columbia COLUMBIA, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child... | |
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Smit with those charms, that must decay, I grieve to see your future doom; They died — nor were those flowers more gay, The flowers that did in Eden bloom; Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. From morning suns... 
