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.


Death of the Flowers (1832), st. 4, lines 23-24

85. The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900[bartleby.com]

William Cullen Bryant Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.