Floral Sketches, Fables, And Other Poems (1836) (Hardcover)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WINTER ACONITE; THE NEW-YEAE'S GIFT. Oh the New-year's Gift is a welcome flower For she gladdens the gloom of the wintry hour: Amidst the dark tempests and blasts of the north, From her mantle of green she looks cheerly forth. i The Jonquil, the Tulip, the Hyacinth gay, Depart with the vanishing glories of May; And the Roses of summer with summer take flight, But a wintry gem is the Aconite.The New-year's Gift. 27 When the trees of the forest are leafless and bare, And the hedgerows are stripped of their coronals fair, And the pride of the garden is faded and gone, She springs from the cold earth, all lovely and lone. When a brief gleam of sunshine dissolves the first snow, It is pleasant to gaze on her beautiful glow; At a time when no object in nature looks bright, Save the golden hue of the Aconite. Before the pale Snow-drop or Daisy may dare To brave the rude hail, or the bleak frostyOr the Crocus peeps forth, or the sweet Celandine, Like a beacon of hope does the Aconite shine. Then speak not of friends who will shrink from our side In moments when friendship by sorrow is tried; Give rne those whose true love through each storm sheds a light, Like the bloom of the wintry Aconite.THE SNOW-DROP. The first flower of the infant year Through kindred snows that springeth, Though gemm'd with many a frozen tear, Is to my musing mind more dear Than all which guy June bringeth; When blossomed trees and rosy flowers Look bright in summer suns and showers. But this lone child of wintry air 'Midst adverse storms appearing, Resemhleth spirits, sweet and fair, Who in this world of grief and care Its hitter woes are cheering; Serene amidst its ceaseless strife, And smiling on the ills of life. Like...