The Death Of The Flowers Comments
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead;
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread;
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the poem was ballin. This poem was like 5 seconds left on the clock down by 2 dish it out to Kobe fade away three, swish.
My quotation marks around the passage cited in the second sentence and around the other poem cited were both deleted, for some reason.
The most beautiful elegy I've ever read. The one who in her youthful beauty died was Bryant's little sister, apparently succumbing in the autumn. There's another poem of his entitled Consumption, which we now call tuberculosis. I wonder if that was also intended for her?
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7/28/2025 4:36:06 AM # 1.0.0
When I was in high school 60 years ago we had to memorize the 1st stanza of this poem. I still remember it.