Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple... The Bookseller - Page 3841865Full view - About this book
| Country life - 1873 - 160 pages
...stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimson'd, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the...whilst aloud From cottage roofs the warbling blue-bird sings; And merrily, with oft-repeated stroke, Sounds from the thrashing-floor the busy flail. Oh, what... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 632 pages
...yellow-leaved, * Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary. Through the tre:s The golden robin moves. The purple finch, That on...whilst aloud From cottage roofs the warbling blue-bird sings, And merrily, with oft-repeated stroke, Sounds from the threshing-floor the busy flail. O what... | |
| 1873 - 824 pages
...stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside aweary." And now take up a leaf. Examine it well. You never saw one exactly like it before, you never will again.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 384 pages
...stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deepcrimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellowleaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary. Through jj^p.'; trees '? ,: The golden robin moves. The purple finch, That on wild cherry and red cedar feeds,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pages
...stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the...whilst aloud From cottage roofs the warbling blue-bird sings, And merrily, with oft-repeated stroke, Sounds from the threshing-floor the busy flail. O what... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 pages
...a-weary. Through the trees The golden robin moves. The purple finch, That on wild-cherry andred-cedar feeds, A winter bird, comes with its plaintive whistle,...whilst aloud From cottage roofs the warbling bluebird smgs, And merrily, with oft-repeated stroke, Sounds from the threshing-floor the busy flail. O what... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 238 pages
...stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the...whilst aloud From cottage roofs the warbling blue-bird sings, And merrily, with oft-repeated stroke, Sounds from the threshing-floor the busy flail. O what... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - 1878 - 472 pages
...yellow-leaved maple, Longfellow docs not forget their feathered inhabitants. " Through the trees," be says, " The golden robin moves. The purple finch, That on...whilst aloud From cottage roofs the warbling bluebird sings." And again, in his Indian poem of " Hiawatha," he says : — " In the thickets and the meadows... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 442 pages
...stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash devpcrimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellowleaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the...The purple finch, That on wild cherry and red cedar fi-ods, A winter bird, comes with its plaintive whistle, And pecks by the witch-hazel, whilst aloud... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 80 pages
...filver beech, and maple yellow-leaf 'd,— Where autumn, like a faint old man, fits down By the wayfide a-weary. Through the trees The golden robin moves...wild cherry and red cedar feeds, — A winter bird, — conies with its plaintive whiftle, And pecks by the witch-hazel, whilft aloud From cottage roofs... | |
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