 TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 311835Full view - About this book
 | Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...written in early life. The lyric, To the Fringed Gentian, will be always read with interest : ' Then blossom, bright with autumn dew, And coloured with...the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night ; Thoa comest not when violets lean 0 er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Literary and scientific class book, Author of - 1830 - 228 pages
...differ from her. LESSON 32. To the Fringed Gentian. Thou blossom, bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue ! That openest when the...violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds... | |
 | Mme. Charlotte Fiske (Bates) Rogé - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...love for thee, and thine for me? THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the...violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1832 - 244 pages
...best, That freshest will awake, and sweetest go to rest ? /. Gf. C. Brainard. To THE FRINGED GENTIAN. That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen...violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 890 pages
...To the Fringed Gentian," which we quote entire. " Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest, when the...violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late, and com'st... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 406 pages
...leave the ground. BRYANT. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. \ THOU bloHom, bright with autumn dew, And eoloured with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and fro-ty night. Thou eomest not when violets lean, O'er wandering brooks and springs unKen, O'er eolumbine*,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children - 1835 - 248 pages
...tenants of earth and sky. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the...violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1835 - 1136 pages
...from the flower. " Thou blossom, bright with autumn dew And coloured wilh the heaven's own blue, Thut openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and...violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. " Thou waitcst late and com'st... | |
 | 842 pages
...the gentian, now to be found abundantly : — " Thou blossom, bright with Autumn dew, And colour'd with the Heaven's own blue, That openest when the...quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night : Thou contest not when the violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen ; When columbines, in purple... | |
 | Gardening - 1835 - 510 pages
...near Newton Corner. — September, October. *' Thou blossoms, bright with morning dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night " — " Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky." — Bryant. Gentidna... | |
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