The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.


Death of the Flowers (1832), st. 1

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 melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.