...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 In purple dressed Nod o'er the ground bird's nest. Thou waltest late and com'st alone. When woods are bare and birds are flown, A...

...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,...year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eve Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue—blue—as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean...

...openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean S O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines,...hidden nest, Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, \Vhen woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near...

...openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night; Thou comest not when violets lean O'er gle warr 9 When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is...

...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,...purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. 1 Reprinted by permission from Poems by A Little Girl by Hilda Conkling. Copyright, 1920, by Frederick...

...when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night — Thou comest not when violets lean s O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines,-...com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, 10 And froste and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet...

...Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean. O'er wandering brooks and spring unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er...the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com 'el alone, When woods are bare and birds have ttuwn, And frosts and shortening days portend The...

...child's bump. A well-loved flower, though rare, is the fringed gentian, made immortal by Bryant's poem: "Thou waitest late, and com'st alone When woods are bare and birds have flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet...

...flower appropriate to the month is ^^^^fi;V;^x^r the fringed gentian, to whom Bry ^^^"^^^^ ant said: " Thou waitest late, and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds have flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end." " It lingers long,"...

...meadow where the Fringed Gentian grew in profusion and it brought to my mind that thought of Bryant's: "Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue—blue—as if that sky let fall A flower from its caerulean wall." In the same locality were...