 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 Seiten
...blossom that grew up And faded by my side; In the cold, moist earth we laid her, When the forest c-.ist the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely Should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was thnt one, Like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful.... | |
 | mrs. J Cooke Westbrook - 1856 - 160 Seiten
...ON TOMB- STONE — THE "WHITE ROSE" — BURIAL — FUNERAL SERMON — " A REMINISCENCE " REMARKS. " In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest...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,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 Seiten
...blossom that grew up and faded by my side : In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forests cost 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,... | |
 | Katherine Devereux Blake, Georgia Alexander - 1906 - 120 Seiten
...then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair, meek blossom that grew up, and perished In the cold, moist earth we laid her, when the forest...leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet was it that one like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 324 Seiten
...beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up And faded by my side. In the cold, moist earth vf J.aid her, When the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lo '«ly Should have a life so brieVf Yet not unmeet it was that one, Like that young friend of ours,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 Seiten
...meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side ; In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forests 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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 410 Seiten
...the girl, and think often of her now. And then I think of one who in Her youthful beauty died, The fair, meek blossom that grew up And faded by my side;...we laid her, When the forest cast the leaf, And we wcpt that one so locely Should hace a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one, Like that young... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 362 Seiten
...blossom that grew up and faded by my side ; In the cold, moist earth we laid her, when the forests 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,... | |
 | Edwin Winfield Bowen - 1908 - 418 Seiten
...meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side. In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forests 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,... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1909 - 374 Seiten
...stream no more. ** The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year." The Death of the Flowers, In the cold, moist earth we laid her, when the forest...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,... | |
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... all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the 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... 
