| 单词 | sere |
| 例句 | It shows the river rolling lazily between meadowy fields dotted with trees and farms, against a distant backdrop of sere hills, notched with a V where the river passes through. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After inspecting the site itself—a wet, peaty bank strikingly unlike the sere desert home of Folsom and Clovis—the archaeologists ended up at a dimly lighted cantina with the appropriate name of La Caverna. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My way of life, new line, Is fall’n into the sere and yellow leaf. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But he looked at her with some strange remorse, and he saw that she had grown thin and her skin was sere and yellow. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The margins of the spring’s small lively pool were frozen, and the sere moss among the rocks was traced with flowers of frost. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Winding slowly uphill through sere desert and a region inhabited by a pacifist tribe called the Bhils, the drive from Jodhpur eventually crests the Aravallis before descending into a startlingly verdant landscape of cultivated fields. India in One, Two or Three Weeks 2012-03-23T18:57:13Z The sere, desolate chaos of military maneuvers is well conveyed, as is the confusion of Cherry’s character. ‘Cherry’ Review: A Very Different Tangled Web for Tom Holland 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z I was 25 that summer, but I felt old, sere and without hope. Modern Love: A Lesson in the Desert 2013-07-18T22:19:50Z Southwest The sun-baked Southwest might seem an inhospitable environment, but its astonishingly varied habitats host an array of plants and animals adapted to steep mountains and canyons, sere deserts and vast flatlands. The U.S. Issue: Endangered Species: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to Endangered Species 2011-05-13T20:22:51Z Sulphur Springs, a small town in northeast Texas, for most of the year is a sere landscape of brown, beige and gray. When a Comic Book Hillbilly and Milton Collide 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Walking with Gregory6 in bare treed October ash woods—winds blowing brown sere leafs at feet—talking of dead Jack—the sky an old familiar place with fragrant eyebrow clouds passing overhead in Fall Current— “Talking of Dead Jack” 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z From there, Oates catalogs all the things this poem is not: no “sere grasses hiss- / ing like consonants / in a foreign language,” no “metonymic moon / time-traveling for wisdom,” lampoons of bad poetry. Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z His texts are pored over scrupulously by academics, read dreamily by kids and scanned with soft remembrance by the sere. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Soaring organic shapes vault sculpturally from the sere landscape like the ramparts of a cathedral consecrated to some wacko progressive religion. In Tucson, an Unsung Architectural Oasis 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z A sere, remote clergyman, he has spent his life lost in research for his impossible Key to All Mythologies. Paul Murray's top 10 wicked clerics 2010-03-17T15:38:00Z And in that sere landscape, you watch as a man’s identity dries up and blows away. Meet Percival Everett: 5 novels that showcase the L.A. writer's enigmatic style 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Thirst becomes the overarching metaphor for human desire in a sere landscape. How a daughter's love and a mother's tenacity saved Marianne Wiggins' novel 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Angel Reese had 20 points to lead the Terrapins, who sere seeking their first win over a No. 1 team since topping North Carolina in 2006. Cooke leads No. 1 Gamecocks to 66-59 win over No. 8 Terps 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z The landscape is dry and sere, but a ribbon of green shrubs and trees flourishes along the creek. Seattle family checks off life goal with 4-day, rim-to-rim trek of Grand Canyon 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z A sere moonscape of rock, sand and mountains, portions of the park lie 282 feet below sea level, the lowest point in North America. Amid dangerous heat wave, Death Valley closes in on record-high temperatures 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Some of the best of what was left of what had been a rolling inland sea of sere, sage green. 2020 wildfires left precious endangered species habitat in Central Washington ‘nothing but ash and dust’ 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z I fear the only people who ate the treats from that American airdrop were journalists scouring the sere landscape for shiny packets of cookies. Conjuring Up the World Through the Sense of Taste 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z While these lands endure severe, sere conditions, they are among the most diverse habitats in the state, home to the burrowing owl, sagebrush sparrow, strutting sage grouse and the sweet-faced pygmy rabbit. Endangered wildlife, habitat burned in Washingon’s wildfires 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The Hall of Fame will forever keep his legacy alive to sere as an inspiration to future generations.” Former Redskins great Bobby Mitchell dies at 84 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z I learned that those men in the desert went forth into the sere heat to find God, to hear a voice sounding out of the orange horizon, a voice like a great enveloping hand. Opinion | I Was Wandering. Toni Morrison Found Me. 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Nor, perhaps, is Williams, with his sere devotion to the idea of restraint. John Williams and the Canon That Might Have Been 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The illusory seas observed in sere deserts are not the only form of mirage, notes Christopher Pinney in this alluring tour of the phenomenon in science and culture. The triumph of random testing, a quest for ancient wine, and a history of mirages: Books in brief 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Scenes of him walking through a sere landscape of ancient ruins, the voice-over his own poetic words, in his own voice — it seems overwrought, but ends up feeling fitting. Documentary review: Jeremiah Tower, forgotten genius behind California cuisine 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Nearby a collection of scrawny cows, with their ribs protruding and flaccid udders, grazed on what little vegetation could be found on the sere ground. Severe Bolivian drought hurts crops, threatens capital 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Kimbo lands a blow that drops Big D to all fours in the sere grass. The Lives They Lived 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z You’ll drive through a sere landscape punctuated with orchards and vineyards until the road meets back up with the Columbia as it bends eastward. The Tri-Cities’ contribution to our literary landscape: a poet laureate and shapeshifting werewolves 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Everything is brown or gray or brownish-gray: sere hills, wheezing trucks, the few factories pushing smoke into the air. A Border With a View: Watching North Korea From the Outside 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z When the cold and snapping breezes Bend the sere and leafless trees, When a pile of feathery snowflakes Is the most a farmer sees. Making Apple Cider Keeps Me Honest 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The tone of this conversation might be sere and autumnal, but the writer remains very much himself, vigorous, resolute, engaged, with plenty of private merriment. Ian McEwan: 'I'm only 66 – my notebook is still full of ideas' 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The road to Linxia, in China’s vast, sere northwest, is known locally as the Quran Belt, with a profusion of newly built mosques and Sufi shrines lining the motorway. If China Is Anti-Islam, Why Are These Chinese Muslims Enjoying a Faith Revival? 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z He regarded himself as one already in the sere and yellow leaf. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z It was at just the season of the year when the leaf of the maple wears its choicest hue of red; and the beech and chestnut assume their "sere and yellow." The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z The year is waning fast, my love; The leaves are in the sere; The fog-horns now are humming, love; And the moonshine's "moonshine," dear. Punch, or the London Charivari, October 21st 1893 2012-04-04T02:01:00.747Z From time to time a leaf, "yellow and sere," loosened, as it were, by invisible fingers from the stem, lingered a second on its way, and fell noiselessly to the earth. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z The poet has lived to see the foliage of the oak grow more sere and yellow, though another breeze from France has swept its branches. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Creeping plants of different kinds, 'with ivy never sere,' have spread themselves very luxuriantly over every part of the Abbey. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Its food doesn’t reflect one particular ethnic identity, or a region other than the Wasatch Front, the sere realms of northern Utah and southern Idaho where church leaders put down roots in the 1840s. A New Generation Redefines Mormon Cuisine 2012-01-25T15:18:48Z The bracken lay sere under the trees, broken and chavelled by the restless wild winds of the long winter. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z They were soon on the sere skirts of the woodland, prancing through leafy drifts. A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z But it is a rare tree that will bear transplanting in the sere and yellow leaf of advanced age. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z In his youth, he was extremely vigorous and active; but he is evidently passing into "the sere and yellow leaf." The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Seeking to undercut Romney's victory, Gingrich and others sere suggesting that anything below 40 percent or so would indicate weakness by the nomination front-runner. Breaking: Mitt Romney Wins New Hampshire; Paul 2nd, Huntsman 3rd 2012-01-10T22:00:00Z Another breath of wind ruffled the roses, and a few more sere leaves fell where he had just been standing. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z O swaying sceptre of the year— Now frost and cold Show Winter near, And shivering leaves grow brown and sere. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Of others, farther back, only the topmost branches protrude, sere, yellow, and dead, from the devouring particles. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Early this week, the Second Mile’s interim chief said the charity’s board of directors was considering closing the organization or transferring its programs, which primarily sere disadvantaged youths, to other nonprofit organizations. Sandusky Accuser Seeks to Stop Charity?s Divestiture 2011-11-24T17:52:22Z On the brow of the hill he stands to-day, But the pride of his life has passed away; His leaves are withered and sere. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z With gusts of wind, the branches, madly arrogant, shook off their exuberance of sere and yellow leaves, as if they were strewing the paths with silver and gold and rustling notes. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z They are fast turning now, and in another week, I fear, will be faded and sere. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z Byron was in the sere and yellow leaf before he was as old as I am, and you are close up. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z He called one then in withered leaf and sere, And sent a warning, so wiseacres said, By causing apple blossoms to appear In winter, and the old man soon was dead. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z You sing of the summer gliding down From the stars that gem bright heaven's crown; Of the flowers that fade in the autumn sere, And the sunlit death of the old, old year. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z The sere and yellow leaves kept whirling about. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Finally they become sere and russet or "die like the dolphin," passing in all the splendor of sunset skies to oblivion on the leaf mould under the trees. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Early autumn finds this region dry and arid; its small streams dried up, the green fields sere, the weeds snapping like glass. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z No, after so many years had been spent in living the life of a plant, until the plant became yellow and sere, then inevitably, inexorably extinction, slow extinction, was the only hope that remained.... The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z But ere the sere and yellow leaf of age was upon his brow, the withering hand of disease laid his noble head in the dust. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z The tree, with its leaves in luxuriance shading My path in the tune-yielding time of the year, Now sighs in its dirge, while its foliage, fading, Descends to its sepulchre withered and sere. Verses of Feeling and Fancy 2011-09-11T02:00:10.237Z In October the superb English elms on Boston Common are still bright green, while their American cousins have passed into "the sere and yellow leaf." Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The slopes of the steep wild hills came down shaggy and bushy, with a few berries lingering, and the long grass-stalks sere with the frost. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Like a careless knight That riding lonely, with averted sight, Has struck a passer unawares, so here Have you struck me amid the branches sere Of this dark forest. Songs of Womanhood 2011-08-21T02:00:31.203Z All is dark and sere at this season, for the dead grasses make the peat blacker by contrast. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z But by the third week of October the yellow and sere of the year has come. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z The pickerel weeds have struck their blue banners to the conquering frost, and the marshes are sere, and silent, and desolate. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The river ran rapidly between stones and then between belts of high sere reeds, high as a man. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Lo! the scattered leaves are sere Of my sorrow; and I tread them Into earth. Songs of Womanhood 2011-08-21T02:00:31.203Z Beyond the rail fence the avenues of the bare woods were carpeted with the sere yellowish leaves that gave back the sunlight with a responsive illuminating effect, and thus the sylvan vistas glowed. The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories 2011-07-19T02:00:22.090Z Summer’s spell was released, and the sere decadence of the year was sweetly and sadly going on. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z It was fine autumn weather; the leaves of the forest were mostly sere, and the winds scattered them about us with an agreeable movement, as we wound among the hills. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z What had kept him fit at an age when many men of his acquaintance were falling into the sere and yellow stage of life? The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Ramsey is a hale, hearty, and well preserved gentleman, who is passing gracefully into what with many is the season of the sere and yellow leaf. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z "Sing whilst ye are young and fair, soon you will be slighted, as are sere lilies," is the song even of happy Tuscany. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The year has reached its grand climacteric, and is fast falling “into the sere, the yellow leaf.” Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z The surface of the ground was rough, vegetation sere and dry, and every thicket which spread before us presented an obstacle which was to be overcome. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The poplars had strewn it with sere and yellow leaves, and of the flowers none remained save a few late roses, China-asters, and chrysanthemums. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z Around and beyond there is nothing but the desert, sere, silent, lifeless, as though Desolation had builded there everlasting thrones to Sorrow and Despair. The Comstock Club 2011-05-18T02:00:16.367Z And there is here some fine pages, Written by maturer ages, Where they show that time is brief, That soon comes sere and yellow leaf. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z I keep the flower you braided Among those waves of gold, The leaves are sere and faded, And like our love grown old. Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf 2011-04-20T02:00:22.033Z It was covered with moderate-sized sere grass and dry seed-pods, which rustled as we passed. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z A faint breeze was stirring them; and the leaves being withered and sere, trembled and fell off; a few of them falling right into the chamber. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z She watched the trees go sere and bare, and calculated on the progress of the farmwork. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Who is it says Autumn is withered and sere, The gloomiest season and saddest? The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z Upon the ridge of Red Hill the rays of the descending sun slanted among the leaves of the beeches, heightening their yellow sere to the hue of gold. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z They at first ran a few yards, but then turned and sat up in the high, sere grass, to see what had disturbed them. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Crisp and sere they carpeted the earth and fled before the wind. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z White has now "fallen into the sere and yellow leaf" and for the last dozen years has been affectionately called by the profession "Daddy White." The Mormons and the Theatre or The History of Theatricals in Utah 2011-03-14T03:01:07.627Z But where it grew, no other grows, No bloom restores the sere; So this resembles not the rose, And knows no other year. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z Each one of them was as a dagger stuck into that sere heart. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z The unpruned trees thrust out dry broken arms from near the roots; the leaves sere and sodden covered the damp, black soil ankle deep rustling under the tread. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z Fortunately, the baby was used to living by rough ways and pastures sere. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The fields no more With frost are hoar; But not a flower doth yet appear In glade or wood or meadow sere. Wayside Weeds 2011-01-23T03:00:17.230Z The vegetation, but for the funereal cypresses, had the sere hectic hue of dying life. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The beautiful green plot is covered with sere and yellow leaves, and the night winds howl through the unclad branches of the noble linden; while the swelling waves of the Theiss lash its sombre banks. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z Admiral Praxin was a man in the 'sere and yellow leaf' of meridian life. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z Farther away on the sere, unirrigated plain are the domed tents of herdsmen, their cooking fires glowing like terrestrial stars. Military medics combine ultramodern and time-honored methods to save lives on the battlefield 2010-10-17T00:14:00Z And too, and too ... in solitude the want Of Rizzio imprisoned comes to me; Yet when I reach for him I seem enclasped By unknown arms ... in the sere dark, that ... Porzia It is too delightful in spite of its regrets for us who are in the sere and yellow leaf.” Lady Maude's Mania I never saw a man so taken aback, and all his graces drooped about him like a sere garland. Idonia: A Romance of Old London Farther and farther south they went, while the wild sunflowers bloomed and faded, and the fair green growth became lifeless and sere with the sinking of the sap. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests The woods bent and tossed and clashed their boughs in the riot of gusts, the sere leaves were flying in clouds, and presently rain began to fall. The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories On either side of the road stood the thatched cottages of the peasants, shaded by limes and chestnuts, some of whose leaves were even now beginning to look autumnally sere and yellow. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Oh! her cheeks fall in, And her hands are thin, But her grip is fast On the changeless past; And they sere and clutch The soul they touch. Provocations The very soul of Spain seemed to be symbolized by those sere quartos of the seventeenth century, nor was it imperceptible even in Smollett's cockney rendering bound in marbled boards. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The thick felt of the mist's white hood, Death with his silence seals the sere Old fishermen of madness here. Poems of Emile Verhaeren Do we not often see towards the close of summer, one single night of early frost avail to turn the trees that were green but yesterday, suddenly sere and yellow? Barbarossa and Other Tales The brown rattling stems of hop vines twining around it, like sere serpents, made a framework for the girlish head and fair young face. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir He was a sallow, faded, middle-aged man, dressed in a sere and faded Prince Albert coat, with sallow and faded boots. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories The lower foot-hills were already sere as autumn, and the ponies came down to their drinking-places unnaturally thirsty; and the cattle, wallowing in the creek-bed, seemed at times to almost stop its flow. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop She certainly, poor soul, did remind one of the 'sere and yellow.' Faith and Unfaith Your many sere and yellow years have brought you to a period in the world's history when the joy of the would-be young lies chiefly in wild contortion to the rhythm of barbaric tunes. A Top-Floor Idyl I found myself in daily and hourly receipt of sere and yellow fragments, originally torn from some dead and gone newspaper, creased and seamed from long folding in wallet or pocket-book. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. It's now the season of the sere and yellow leaf. Thirty By the dam, with a cheerless visage Walks a Jew, who is ragged and sere. An Outline of Russian Literature These emerald islets, fed by vernal skies, never grow sere and yellow in the autumn; never bleak and desolate in the winter. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. Frieda Long is hardly thirty-eight," I told him, "and, to change the subject for a moment, I will acknowledge that I deemed such cases best attended by the sere and ancient. A Top-Floor Idyl He rides o'er fields of waving corn, And leaves them sere and dry; He touches the flowers with his magic wand, And they wither away and die. Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks The trees round the recreation-ground between the city and cantonments are becoming sere and showing variegated tints of yellow and brown. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches Blown, like the sere leaves, away; And thou dost seem a trunk, on whose bare head The gray moss of uncounted days is spread! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 Then he rose and, with a face white and haggard as a sere cloth, turned to Brockford. Long Live the King I shall do my best to entertain two callers charitable enough to penetrate a sere and yellow bachelor's quarters. A Top-Floor Idyl Indeed, the most enthusiastic anglers, and those who best illustrate its refining and invigorating influence, are those who have passed into "the sere and yellow leaf" with rod and reel as their inseparable companions. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Those who had formed it were stretched on the sere pastures or hurrying to the rear. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. There is no winter interval or sleep for the vegetation, no period of the sere and yellow leaf, as with us in the colder north. The Pearl of India I know her not by plumping nuts, By redded hips and haws, Or by the silence hanging sad Under the wind's sere pause. Song-Surf Gordon will finish his picture and she will return to keeping accounts and advising anxious ladies as to the possibilities of renovating sere and yellow waists and skirts. A Top-Floor Idyl She specially imported frilled petticoats from England to display in the mazy dance, and she assured me they were turning sere and yellow in her boxes. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) November The leaves are sere, The woods are drear, The breeze that erst so merrily did play, Naught giveth save a melancholy lay; Yet life's great lessons do not fail E'en in November's gale. The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children Boxing is the game of youth, and fencing with foils, we have been assured, improves as men fall into the sere and yellow leaf. Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence The bridge gave on a wide plain where tall grass grew sere and yellow. The People of the Crater The wind, with its chilly fingers, picked off the sere leaves, and made mounds of them in the garden walks. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It It is tiny and delicate and lovely, and replete with memories of sere leaves in November and of lilies in April. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The schoolroom windows—darkened with creeping plants, from which no high October winds had as yet swept the sere foliage—admitted scarce a gleam of sky; but the fire gave light enough to talk by. Shirley He crossed the corner of the demolished abode, made his way through a press of sere cabbage palmettos, and emerged suddenly on the blinding expanse of the sea. Wild Oranges He is very reasonable, and requires only that we should not in his 'sere and yellow leaf' offer him the indignity of casting him aside. The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion He was a man in the mellow of life, in the Indian summer of manhood, which comes a little while before one falls "into the sere and yellow leaf." Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It I have known young men of twenty-four who have been married and divorced half a dozen times, and also Arabs whose days are in the sere and yellow leaf who never had but one wife. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It Hast thou no art can make me believe, while the summer yet lingers, Better than bloom that has been red leaf and sere that must be? Poems We use paints and stains in abundance for the sere clothes of the dead and the decorations of their coffins, and I can easily make you as dark as any of our people. The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt It was so late in the season that every other flower by the roadside had been killed by frost; even the goldenrod was more sere than yellow. Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. There is no sere and yellow leaf here—fruits and flowers are perennial. Aztec Land Tom had reached the sere age of twenty-two when he began to wonder if he must go beyond the Black Rim world for his wife, or resign himself to the fate of an old bachelor. Rim o' the World The russet coat, turning grey with age, was eloquent of the brown earth, the sere leaf, and the colourless calm of twilight, and told me of the creature's times and seasons. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain But a parchment skin was tightly drawn over the bones, and Allan could see that its true shade was a sere yellow. When the Sleepers Woke From the bough of youth is shaken Every hope that blossom'd there; And my soul doth now inrobe her In the leaves of sere October Under branches swaying bare. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 The path was a narrow groove in the turf between high, sere, tussocky grass; it was scarcely more than a rabbit run. The Rainbow Have doubt and skepticism burned the divine dew off the grass, and left it sere and brown? A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character The new rushes were beginning to fringe the edges of the tiny lake, but the winter sedge stood pale and sere, and filled the air with a dry rustling. Beside Still Waters When she had opened up the thing she rose eagerly and shook out a gown that was as brittle and sere as a leaf in autumn and that rustled frigidly as the stiffened folds straightened. The Roof Tree There are times, I find, when I can accept that intimation of slipping into the sere and yellow leaf without revolt. The Prairie Child The apricots had lost their leaves, so had the grapevines and the fig-trees; but the peach-trees were in foliage; pansies and perpetual roses bloomed amid sere and seedy thickets of larkspurs, phlox, and dead delphinium. The Maids of Paradise Though they were all in what Dr. Spinks afterwards termed the sere and yellow leaf, both he and the good captain really vied with each other in paying kindly attention to their wants. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure The swollen waters of the burn hid the stone seat where the children had loved to sit, and the sere leaves of the rowan-tree lay scattered in the glen. The Orphans of Glen Elder Blackthorn is now mixed in the bare purple hedgerows, and almond blossom, here and there, whitens the sere oak, and the black rocks above. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Br. and I dismounted and walked down; the road cut out of the steep wooded hills; on the shady side trickling with water and delicious with moss, primroses, and violets among the sere chestnuts. The Spirit of Rome The main one is somewhat "tickle of the sere" to handle. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Song of the Dead in the South—in the sun by their skeleton horses, Where the warrigal whimpers and bays through the dust of the sere river-courses. The Seven Seas Sweet rosemary within the lane The while the day is warm and clear, And ne’er a thought of bitter rain Or the road-side sere. The Rose-Jar To communicate this time, the fields of force took a sere planet, of barren, blistered rock, and with a concept made it into the garden of man's dreams. Eight Keys to Eden Beyond, a band of lilac sere field, a band of blue sea; and between the fringe of the compact round pines, the sun setting, its light shivering diamond-like among the needles. The Spirit of Rome Some dived and darted round and round it, some hopped to and fro on the sere lawn, some perched on the chimney-tops, and some clung to the window ledges; all twittering a loving farewell. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. He crossed the road, pushed open the grinding iron gate of the fence that enclosed the Courthouse lawn, and made his way through the sere, fallen leaves to the steps. Mountain Blood A Novel “The green and the sere make two,” she replied. Ulf Van Yern and Other Ballads The skies they were ashen and sober, and the leaves they were crisped and sere. The Martian We drive up through the sere chestnut woods, where wind-flowers and blue squills come up everywhere among the russet leaves. The Spirit of Rome Mine too the blow, the unwept scar; Mine too the flames that sere; And on my breast not one proud star That leaves a brother's heaven bare. Path Flower and Other Verses Hay, he knew was still being made in the valley, but the prospect of long, arduous, days in the open fields, in the hot, dry chaff of the sere grass, was forbidding. Mountain Blood A Novel He is early old, this "child of hate," as Wotan long ago called him, sere and pallid, totally unglad and hating the glad. The Wagnerian Romances And could not that bright Image, far above The Reach of sere Decay, content thy Thought? Spare Hours And look at this sere and yellow leaf. Jonah and Co. Over the shoulder of Yellow Old Bald up came the sun, bannered and glorious; the distant ranges glowed in his splendours; the sere fields about the place were all gilded. Judith of the Cumberlands The open space of yard, green and fresh in the springtime, when she and Kara oftentimes sat outdoors to dream and plan, was now baked brown and sere. The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest The birds that sang when ye were here, Are singing in another clime; Have left the hedge and forest sere, And gone where all is summer-time. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Late in the season, after most other plants are in "the sere and yellow leaf" it is literally covered with great panicles of starry white flowers which have a delightful fragrance. Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover Bright gleams vanish—the stately dinner parties grow dim, Masters of Horses and Hounds go to battle, the plate is melted down, and all is sad and sere. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy And presently again even the clouds were left behind and the air was clear—but still there was no horizon—and there was brownish earth with small green patches and beyond was sere brown range. Space Platform Beyond that there was a lane between ranks of young, balsamy, white-misted firs and then an open pasture field, sere and crispy. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 A little wind was laughing freakishly among the firs around Ingleside and rustling among the sere grasses along the garden walks. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Before her lay sere, brooding fields sloping down to a sandy shore, where long foamy ripples were lapping with a murmur that threaded the hushed air like a faint minor melody. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 The leaves are sere, the woods have lost Their blossoms killed by nipping frost. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Also, she saw the green fields and the sere hedges with the red berries, giving promise of a hard winter. The Opal Serpent But for a year they had been shedding their leaflets and turning sere. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate Nanny went straight to a shadowy corner and knelt on the sere grasses while she placed her holly wreath on Miss Avis's grave. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Thy fruit of life lift bloom all sere and pale. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman It is of Germanic origin and cognate with sere. The Romance of Names Fading now are copse and cover; Forests now are sere and waned. Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II On the other side the filmy, crackly, sere sheaths were also faintly sunny. The Lost Girl The sere and yellow leaf is falling on the shelterless head of the royal Puritan. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Not here shall come that pale wraith fair, Who, wandering once in Northern lands, Bore o’er long reaches sere and bare The death-flower white, for baby hands. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman But the sky remained pitiless, and from my mountain eyry I could see the valley bottoms growing sere and yellow. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Beyond the rail fence the avenues of the bare woods were carpeted with the sere yellowish leaves that gave back the sunlight with a responsive illuminating effect, and thus the sylvan visitas glowed. His "Day In Court" 1895 There was no figure in sight; no faint foot-fall was audible, no rustle of the sere leaves; only the voice of the mountain torrent, far below, challenged the stillness with its insistent cry. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895 The woods bent and tossed and clashed their boughs in the riot, of gusts, the sere leaves were flying in clouds, and presently rain began to fall. Wolf's Head 1911 The planks look warped! and see those sails, How thin they are and sere! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 So shall there be nothing “sere and yellow” about him. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere, 20 Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Her footfall like the dew— Pasiphassa As a flower by frost made sere Long before the sun breaks through, Feeleth him, I know her near. Helen Redeemed and Other Poems The orchard is stripped of its leaves, and, sere and brown, they cover the garden paths and are strewn over the box borders. John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Night after night your horse treads down alone The sere damp fern, night after night you sit Holding the bridle like a man of stone, Dismal, unfriended: what thing comes of it? The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems To Anne it seemed as if the Summer would last for always and that the Casino would never be deserted again, the grass sere and brown or piled with drifts of snow. Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport They hold us where the sweet herbage of life has become dry and sere, where no shelter offers us a grateful retreat. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Strange, by my faith!" the Hermit said— "And they answered not our cheer! the with The planks look warped and see those sails, How thin they are and sere! English Songs and Ballads Woe for the leaf of human life! it flutters in the sere, And what avails its dance in air, with dust and down-come near? The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Across the ravine, where the fringed blue gentian looked up from the sere grass, the cows were grazing, and Bud, from habit, went for them and brought them up to the bars. The Second Chance The water buckets were ready, and there were the willows that the dust had made as sere as autumn,—but where was the stream? The Long Roll The way was long; the road ill-formed, leading for the most part across a sere and desolate country, with nothing to relieve its barrenness except long stretches of the great spear-headed reeds. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Thus employed the weeks passed with incredible swiftness, the monotony broken by an occasional visit from Mr. Britton, until August came, its hot breath turning the grasses sere and brown. At the Time Appointed The treatment had to be mainly provocative—an appeal in some cases by very coarse means indeed to very coarse nerves, in others by finer devices addressed to senses more tickle o' the sere. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) The leaves they were crispèd and sere— The leaves they were withering and sere. The Principles of English Versification In the driving sleet the men tore apart the shocks and with numbed fingers stripped from the grain the sere, rough, and icy husks. The Long Roll The grass was getting sere, there was new-fallen snow on Lizard Head, and winter was coming. The Eagle's Heart Patches of sage-brush and bunch grass, burned sere and brown, alternated with barren stretches of sand from which piles of rubble rose here and there, telling of worked-out and abandoned mines. At the Time Appointed And none note how our poor eyes fall, Nor how our cheeks are sunk and sere . Silverpoints It was an old, old hunting-coat, far gone in the sere and yellow leaf. The Singing Mouse Stories The flowers are scentless, black, and sere, The perfume long has passed away; The sea whose tides are year by year Is set between us, chill and gray. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV The leaves upon the trees were sere and withered, the brooks were dry and the birds had long since hushed their melody. Rabbi and Priest A Story At last there could be no doubt that the leaves were thin and sere and scanty—that the sun shone through them—that the fruit was tasteless. Short Studies on Great Subjects His long gray mustache hung far below his stubble-covered chin; there was a pallor of a lingering sickness in his skin, which the hot sun could not sere out of it. Trail's End "Neither is there a grain in the darkness of the earth nor a thing green or sere, but it is noted in a distinct writing." The Faith of Islam It was strictly hospital all right; sere white and stainless steel as far as my esper could reach. Highways in Hiding She hath a birth-day now No hastening night that knows, She hath a never-ending year Which feels no blight of autumn sere, Nor chill of wintry snows. Man of Uz, and Other Poems Since, my heart is sere and withered, and I do not care a curse, Whether worse shall be the better, or the better be the worse. The Bon Gaultier Ballads I had not seen myself since the green of summer had passed into the "sere and yellow leaf," and perhaps the blight of my heart was visible on my brow. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Here is flesh cooked sere as the shell of a tortoise. The Coming of the King When you can accuse me of not changing I shall know that I have fallen into the sere and withered leaf past redemption. The Great Amulet The next day, all the leaves were falling sere and yellow, as if it were late autumn. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 Its naked light would sere and blind him forever.... The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays The landscape, glad erewhile, lay dark, autumnal; Each grove was sere, each flower stem was broken; Within the frozen sense my strength lay dead, All joy, all courage withered within me. Essays on Scandinavian Literature The ground was covered only by a deep bed of sere decaying oak leaves. Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago The sitting-room, beside it, was slightly larger, and they both commanded a row of tenements no less degenerate than Ransom's own habitation—houses built forty years before, and already sere and superannuated. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) The autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gathered up gold, And now he is dying: Old age, begin sighing! Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two And added, "Oh, I myself am but a sere leaf." Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan I see you turn a listening ear To hear The quail upon the flower-pied heather; But, doggie, wait till uplands sere, And then the autumn's waning weather Will bring the sport we hold so dear. The Dog's Book of Verse The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are serest, But our flower was in flushing When blighting was nearest. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language In the garish light of the afternoon he looked singularly white and bleached, like a man whose warm, red-veined life is dried into a sere grayness of blood and tissue. The Emigrant Trail The sere leaves wail around thy passing bier, Speed to thy dreamless rest, departing year! Indian Legends and Other Poems The jungle choked highway curved and they were suddenly fronted by a desert of sere desolation, a desert floored by glassy slag which sent back the sun beams in a furnace glare. The Gifts of Asti I wanted you to see them at their best; they are just turning now, and in another week, I fear, will be faded and sere. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Like a lone cypress, stately in decay, When time has worn its summer boughs away, 20 And hung its trunk with moss and lichens sere, The Mountain-warrior rested on his spear. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan There had once been water here for the grasses, and thin-leafed plants grew rank about the rock's base, then outlined in sere decay what had evidently been the path of a streamlet. The Emigrant Trail There is not a particle of sere foliage to be seen, and it has, moreover, a glossy appearance, whence the specific name. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Once clear of the Shed, and with flat, sere desert ahead to the very horizon, Joe threw on full power to the pushpot motors. Space Tug When Winter comes with frigid blast, Or when the blithesome Spring is past And Summer's here with sunshine hot, Or in sere Autumn, thou has still the pow'r To charm alike, whate'er the hour. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar But heaven was as red iron, slumberless, And had no heart to bless; And earth lay sere and darkling as distraught, And help in her was nought. Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III How sere and faded was their life, Its fragrance all exhaled;— Till from the blue o'erarching sky, A clearer beam was given, A light that showed them labor here, And promised joy in heaven. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 Creeping plants of different kinds, "with ivy never sere," have spread themselves very luxuriantly over every part of the Abbey. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 577, July 7, 1827 A deep-toned keening set up off to the southward, over the sere and dreary landscape. Space Tug The snow lies deep upon the ground, And winter's brightness all around Decks bravely out the forest sere, With jewels of the brave old year. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar And the wind helped not, and the sun was dumb; And with too long strong stress of grief to be His heart grew sere and numb. Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III And for all this the Southern woman, her heart full of the mournful memories of the sere past and heavy with the anxieties of the present, held the "cruel Yankee" responsible. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 Cruel is she who took from me that substance With which I might have conquered an escape, Leaving me, a forlorn old spirit, sere and grey. The Arctic Queen "Then his heart it grew ashen and sober As the leaves that were crispéd and sere,— As the leaves that were withering and sere!" The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe Its sere grasses, protruding out of the snow, hissed and bent in the wind. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy Now its trunk was snapped, its boughs crushed, its foliage turning sere. The Sheriff's Son For cold thy bed to rest upon, And cold the falling year Whose withered leaves are lost and sere.' Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems They thrust their sere yellow sword-blades skyward with the pitiful defiance of desperate things. The River and I Then he arose from his bed of withered and sere leaves and as one distraught, wandered through the shadows of the misty, weird night. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe When the first sere leaves of the year were falling, I heard, with a heart that was strangely thrilled, Out of the grave of a dead Past calling, A voice I fancied forever stilled. Poems of Passion All the abundant hedgerows were red with the leaf of the wild cherry, and the oak woods wore masses of sere and russet leafage. Mike Fletcher A Novel I loved my love from green of Spring Until sere Autumn's fall; But now that leaves are withering How should one love at all? Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems The horizon was merely a blue haze—and the endless land was sere. The River and I I'm weary waiting here, The chill east wind is sighing, The autumn tints are sere, The summer flowers are dying. Verses for Children and Songs for Music Of them Alexander said only that Ian wrote as usual, except that he made no reference to sere leaves turning green or a dead staff budding. Foes "I should have sought your bright eyes could see all what sere is to see in two days." What Necessity Knows Draw close the curtains Of branched evergreen; Change cannot touch them With fading fingers sere: 60 Here the first violets Perhaps will bud unseen, And a dove, may be, Return to nestle here. Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems Cucumber.—The vines should now be in a flourishing condition, but it is necessary to look forward to the day when they will fall into the sere and yellow leaf. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition "And I'm getting quite into the sere and yellow leaf, am I not, Brimberly?" The Definite Object A Romance of New York He held it so that Strickland might read: Glenfernie,—Perhaps the leaf is not yet wholly sere. Foes Soon they came to a bit of open ground, all overgrown with bronzed bracken, and maidenhair sere and pink, and blue-eyed asters and golden-rod. What Necessity Knows Kenny shivered and refused to dwell upon a phase of life that was like autumn and sere and drifting leaves. Kenny The breeze is as bland as the breath of a babe, coming through my casement with the light, and bathing my parched cheek; and the sere summer is warming away the gentle, genial spring. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest October is not sere and sorrowful with us, but a ruddy and deep-bosomed lass, a royal and free-hearted spender and giver of gifts. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Twenty is nothing but the 'sere and yellow leaf' of infantile caprice! Little Eve Edgarton The Autumn is old, The sere leaves are flying;— He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;— Old Age, begin sighing! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood The loneliest birch is brown and sere, The furthest pool is strewn with leaves, Which float upon their watery bier, Where is no eye that sees, no heart that grieves. The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics And slowly it changes into the sadness of the autumn, the sere leaves are falling around the player, heavy clouds hang low over his head. The Photoplay A Psychological Study All sere are the prairies and brown in the glimmer and haze of the Autumn; From the far northern marshes flock down, by thousands, the geese and the mallards. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems The mint should be cut as soon as it is in full bloom, and the lower leaves become sere; the first crop will not be fit to cut as early as the two succeeding ones. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. The laurels which Britannia's legions hope to win in South Africa are sere and yellow. A Century of Wrong He was not running from anything the charcoal burner might say, do, but from a terrifying spectacle of himself; from the vision of a body shot through the breast, huddled in the sere underbrush. The Three Black Pennys A Novel My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Martin Luther was in the sere old age of his life, waiting for the command of the Master, which should bid him lay down his armor. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 The old orchard in its sere and yellow leaf, the dying grass, and the turning maple leaves seemed to join in the great mourning. From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield But Genius repels me, she “turns a deaf ear,” And frowns on me scornful, the year after year; Perhaps if I sue, in the “sere yellow leaf,” She’ll open her heart, and yield me relief. The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems The ledger slipped to the floor, tearing the spongy leather and crumbling the sere leaves. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Oh! well they fare, safe sheltered in that nest Of silence, far from fear, Their memory not yet sere. Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems When autumn's chill winds make this leaf look as sere As the leaves on the beech-tree that shelters me here, Will the tree's heart be chilled by the blast? Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry In 1750 he went to England where he made his first appearance at a benefit concert for Cuzzoni, the celebrated opera singer, then in the sere and yellow leaf of her career. Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday The nuts ripened, the forests grew yellow and red, and the corn was stacked in the long, sere fields, above which, each morning, lay a white mist. Lewis Rand It might be that he was only a sere husk, a dry bundle of inhibitions, insensible to the green humanity of life. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Somebody was forever "just stopping by," as the expression ran; and the path from the port was trodden brown and sere as autumn drew on apace. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod A brain be like a nut, as ripens all the year through an’ awnly comes to be gude for gathering when the tree ’s in the sere. Children of the Mist It was cold upon the river, and sere leaves, loosening their hold upon that which had given them life, drifted down upon her as she rowed beneath arching trees. Audrey The gusty air brought a swirl of sere leaves across his path, and the dust rose chokingly. Lewis Rand He explained this to her in a sere reach of the garden. The Three Black Pennys A Novel "Prophet-like that lone one stood, With dauntless words and high, That shook the sere leaves from the wood As if a storm pass'd by." The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century Lo! come from yonder sheiling by the burn An aged pair whom Time claimed as his own— Their clothes all brown, and sere and sadly worn, But brushed and clean, and tentily put on. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. No tenuous threads to weave her nest, She seeks and gathers there or here; But spins it from her faithful breast, Renewing still, till leaves are sere. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn She considered through blinding tears a little patch of sere grass. Lewis Rand Caroline dragged him impetuously down into the garden, among the brown, varnished stems of the withered roses, the sere, dead ranks of scarlet sage. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Green still it is, where that fair goddess strays; Then follow, till around thee all be sere. Reviews Rain is without, but the shelter is near; Yellow the furze, the cow-parsnip is sere, God in Heaven, how couldst Thou create cowards here! A Celtic Psaltery She stood looking down at the mass of sere bloom, touched the withered tops lingeringly with her finger-tips. V. V.'s Eyes Lewis Rand left the river and the windy sycamore and hastened across the sere grass. Lewis Rand I turned to the hearth, tossed on the fire the sere old paper, which blazed at once, and then, hearing the words pax vobiscum, I looked round. In the Wrong Paradise There are no better similes for the oncoming of age and death, than the sere leaf trembling in the wind, the twilight of the setting sun, the expiring flame. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times A small band won to the farther side, but the shot was as a blast of winter among sere leaves, and terribly thinned their ranks. Sir Mortimer The leafless branch and meadow sere, The dull and leaden skies, Join with the mournful wind and drear In dirges for the passing year, Which unreturning flies. Mountain idylls, and Other Poems In the sere and yellow leaf of autumn these groves were charming, and I presume they are equally so in the fresh verdure of summer. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life And soon I heard a roaring wind: It did not come anear; 310 But with its sound it shook the sails, That were so thin and sere. Selections from Five English Poets After that it was a barren pasture, prolific only in bleached boulders of rocks, of bracken that lay wasted, of broom that was sere. Waysiders The sere vine veiled his study casement; in the silence he could hear the sound of the Edera water; he sat down at his familiar table, with the dog upon his knees. The Waters of Edera Instead of the great gun, tier on tier, A freight of pebbles and grass-blades sere! The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell He is forty-five years of age, active and vigorous, and capable of doing much before his way of life is fallen into the sere and yellow leaf. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Brown hills long parched, long lifting to the blue Of summer's brilliant sky but russet hue Of sere grass shivering in the trade-wind's sweep. The California Birthday Book The country is really sere and brown; but the weather is fine, and these October feasts are charming. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II Alas! he has "fallen into the sere and yellow leaf," for though sometimes uttering brilliant thoughts, they are "like angel visits, few and far between;" and total silence, or half-incoherent rhapsodies, mark the intervals. The Idler in France There 's small pity in 't: Like mistletoe on sere elms spent by weather, Let him cleave to her, and both rot together. The White Devil "Wither away yourself," was the contemptuous reply; "you are already in the sere and yellow leaf; while I seem to have a green old age before me." Cobwebs from an Empty Skull The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Ralph Waldo Emerson There was an indefinable melancholy about the sere landscape. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People The tints were certainly, in the larger growths, less delicate here than there; the poplar's chrome was darker, the willow's mottled chrome more sere. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 My muse and I are sorted ill, I’m in my yellow leaf and sere; While she is young and ardent still And urges me to persevere. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland It takes a lot of fanaticism to remain single, and fanaticism is in the sere and yellow leaf. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" The wind moaned, and, sweeping the sere leaves at intervals, threatened a tempest. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 It was clothed with a thick growth of sere weeds, cut by one hint of a diagonal line. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World Love has vanished with the summer dews, and in its place are cutting blasts and snows and sere memories rustling like fallen leaves about the feet. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life Fleeting time is on the wing— Surely Winter, joyous Spring, Glowing Summer, Autumn sere, Mark the changes of the year. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland It spread remoter and remoter, with only a few clusters of sere thorn bushes here and there, and the dim suggestions of some now waterless ravine to break its desolation of yellow grass. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The sun passes the equinox; the days shorten, the leaves grow sere; but—he is coming. The Three Brontës Yet I'm a whited sepulchre, in brief; I've one foot in the grave, I'm on the wane, I'm heading for the sere and yellow leaf. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 Here was a desperado in the sere, shaking for the need of drink, when he first appeared to Bedient. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel We sometimes came on these green places unexpectedly, far away from any habitation, and all the more gem-like and beautiful from their rough setting of sere savanna and rugged mountain. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Around thee all Is sad and sere,— The brown leaves tell Of winter's breath, And all but thou Of doom and death. Poems It would lie in wait in sheltered places, smouldering, husbanding its fuel until the grass was yellow and the forests sere. An Englishman Looks at the World O dismal lane Whose end is but the sere and yellow leaf! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 With one exception, all his recent protagonists have been, if not exactly in the sere and yellow, at least ripely mature. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917 Don't you find a startling majority still clinging, sere and withered, to the family bush? Cheerful—By Request Some of the rock-loving ferns in dry places are known as "resurrection" ferns, reviving after their leaves have turned sere and brown. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada Half-way up the sere dooryard, Ken touched his wondering mother's arm and drew her to a standstill. The Happy Venture Regrets are useless, unguents are in vain; Only remains the sere and yellow leaf. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 The May flowers were all dried up in the sun, and the ground pine and bear's grass were as sere and yellow as the autumn leaves. No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey The gentlest wind brings down the serest leaf. Tales of Ind And Other Poems And then from many a poet's page The blest reverse he proved: How sweet to pass life's pilgrimage, From purple youth to sere old age, Aye loving and beloved! The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems Through chilling snow she toiled to reach his side, Forcing her way mid branches brown and sere, Hastening that she his sorrows might divide, Share all his woe, or calm his gloomy fear. Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls The effect upon the tree resembles that of a blight, the leaves grow sere, and the branches die. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America Latter leaves, in Autumn's breath, White and sere, Sanctify the scholar's death, Lying here. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Craonne, before thy cannon-swept plateau, Where like sere leaves lay strewn September's dead, I found for all dear things I forfeited A recompense I would not now forego. Poems Pale asters were blowing in the sere and misty meadows between them and the harbor. Anne's House of Dreams Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chirped like fairy pipers at a feast. Little Women But that had been in springtime; and this was late autumn, and all the woods were leafless and the fields sere and brown. Anne of Avonlea For several minutes he saw no sign of what was transpiring behind that screen of sere and yellow autumn leaves, and then a man came running out, and after him another and another. The Mad King A weird, dreamy stillness had fallen on the purple earth, the dark fir woods, the valley rims, the sere meadows. The Golden Road But he cloaked his triumph, and searched, instead, Till his cheeks were sere and his hairs were gray. Children of the Night Where shall we go for our garlands glad At the falling of the year, When the burnt-up banks are yellow and sad, When the boughs are yellow and sere? Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Well, if a man can stride four and a-half feet without the smallest effort, he can't be quite in the sere and yellow. A Study in Scarlet And Clover guarded well its rest, Till Autumn's leaves were sere, Till all her sister flowers were gone, And her winter sleep drew near. Flower Fables Forward th' obedient phantoms push, Their trackless footsteps rustle near, In sound like autumn winds that rush Through withering oak or beech-wood sere. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 My eyes are dull and my face is sere, Yet unto the word he gave I cling, For he was a Pharaoh that set me here— And, lo! Songs and Other Verse I do not believe that the Ivy never sere is comparable to it. Excursions The soft, warm haze Makes moist once more the sere and dusty ways, And, creeping through where dead leaves lie in drifts, The violet returns. A Calendar of Sonnets In the front of the box she sat—its sole ornament—against a background of Mrs. Kirkham's contemporaries, withered and sere in contrast with her lily-pure freshness. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California The South whispered hard and sere, The North answered, low and clear; And thunder muffled up like drums Beat, whence the East wind comes. Georgian Poetry 1920-22 Fear not the recklessness of yore Shall re-occur to vex thee now; Alas, I am a youth no more— I'm old and sere, and so art thou! Songs and Other Verse Vineleaf and rose: I would, had I the art, Distil, to lasting sweet, Joy's rosy heart, That no sere autumn should its fragrance wrong, Closed in the crystal glass of slender song. Ride to the Lady And Other Poems Through the sere grass, in shy retreat, Flatter, at coming feet, The robins strange and mute. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Mark was in the schoolroom chanting his home-lessons: "'Yet once more, oh ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown with ivy never sere'"— That sounded nice. Mary Olivier: a Life Tolerably quick work, I think you will allow, my dear sir, for a man whose years have fallen into the sere and yellow leaf. Charlotte's Inheritance The sun passes the equinox; the days shorten, the leaves grow sere; but—-he is coming. Villette Armored in ice the sere stems arch to-day, Each tiny thorn encased and argent bright; Where clung the birds that long have taken flight, Dead songless leaves cling fluttering on the spray. Ride to the Lady And Other Poems You were glad she had chosen that color because she was going for a walk with him; and green would enchain the eye out on the sere ground and under the stripped trees. Bride of the Mistletoe And he who roams the village round, Or strays amid the harvest sere, Will hear, as now, too many a sound Quiet would never wish to hear. May Day with the Muses It is true the movement is slow, impeded by the frequent repetitions, but so the wearied mind, after nervous exhaustion, is "palsied and sere." Selections from Poe Oh! would she might, with her weight of grief, Lie down in the dust, with the autumn leaf Now trodden and brown and sere! War Poetry of the South Did I not see those sails, "thin and sere?" Prue and I It is in the eclogue for February, where he tells us of the "Faded oak Whose body is sere, whose branches broke, Whose naked arms stretch unto the fire." Among My Books Second Series The year Declined; in the still air the thrush piped clear, The languid sunshine did incurious peer Among the thinned leaves of the forest sere. Poems of Paul Verlaine As I write I hear the last sighs of the departing summer, and the sere and yellow leaf is visible in the green of nature. The Pilgrims of the Rhine All sere are the prairies and brown, in the glimmer and haze of the Autumn; From the far northern marshes flock down, by thousands, the geese and the mallards. Legends of the Northwest But bedraggled autumn's robes were soon washed colorless; the heath turned pallid before it faded to sere brown; rotten banks of decaying leaves rose high under the hedges. Lying Prophets His wasted palms rested on knees that resembled bones draped with maculate clothing; his sere head fell forward. The Happy End So have I seen a clear October pool, Cold, liquid topaz, set within the sere Gold of the woodland, tremorless and cool, Reflecting all the heartbreak of the year. Poems And in that pause there came from afar off a melodious, melancholy strain—softly, softly borne over the cold blue waters—softly, softly through the sere autumnal leaves—the music of the magic flute! What Will He Do with It? — Complete And in that pause there came from afar off a melodious, melancholy strain- softly, softly borne over the cold blue waters—softly, softly through the sere autumnal leaves—the music of the magic flute! What Will He Do with It? — Volume 09 When the sere has touched Their flowing locks, they prattle less of death, Perchance think more of it. Count Alarcos; a Tragedy It was said that the moment she had seen Mantegazza's villa she had decided to possess it, even at the price of its sere withdrawn holder. The Happy End Through the wind-swayed branches, little flickering patches of morning sunlight met his gaze, as they played and quivered on the forest moss or over the sere pine-spills. Darkness and Dawn In March or April the spring runs are a bright emerald while the surrounding fields are yet brown and sere, and in fall they are yet green when the first snow covers them. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Patriarchal in appearance, with a long face and longer beard, white and sere, it became proverbial without appearing much of a far-fetched joke that he was the naval constructor to Noah of Ark-aic fame. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form Is there a heart so sere as not to feel Pleasures innumerable o'er it stead, In sweet surroundings of earth's lovely flowers, Which cheer and elevate man's saddest hours. Home Lyrics No horse is ever seen there till it has passed well into the sere and yellow. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel The autumn promised a sere and yellow leaf to the German High Command. A Short History of the Great War Never mind; let me welcome truth, albeit in such sere and sorry garb, and look forward to the time when I shall be able to do so unmoved, as does my photograph. The Home and the World O’er sunburnt browsThey wore sere wreaths; their piebald vests were stained,And lean their looks, and sad: some piped, some sang,Some tossed the juggler’s ball. The Legends of Saint Patrick The autumn leaf is sere and dead, It floats upon the water's bed; I would not be a leaf, to die Without recording sorrow's sigh! The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas I could see his great frame through a willow-tree, with the sere grass and withered reeds around, and the faint gleam of fugitive water beyond. Erema — My Father's Sin Let's not mind it, however it seems, Hope is so sweet and holds so many dreams; All of the sere fields with blossoms shall blaze One of these days. It Can Be Done Poems of Inspiration When he goes, he looks who looks; if he find not good store of vailers, he comes home stiff and sere, until he be new oiled and watered by his husbandmen. Character Writings of the 17th Century Twenty years, and they the years of the sere, the yellow leaf. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough He had seen his threescore and ten years; and was fast falling into the "sere and yellow leaf." Wyandotte But all these royal cities are on the decline, the "sere and yellow leaf" of a well nigh defunct civilization. Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. To Phoebus was not Hyacinth so dear, Nor to himself Narcissus, as to both Thou, Adonais; wan they stand and sere, &c. Adonais "If we live long enough we may even see each other in the sere and yellow leaf," said Doris flippantly. The Postmaster's Daughter And while the Exchange rang with cheers, Stickney, a colour now in his sere cheeks, went boring his way outward. The Lord of the Sea And as sweet flowers, tho' sere and dead, Can by their fragrance bring Remembrance of the days long fled Again on Memory's wing. Lays from the West He concluded this standing on a shorn hill about which the country was spread in sere diminishing tones to the grey horizon. Cytherea These flowers—being some of the kindling buds which Spring had thrown down—stand 'wan and sere.' Adonais At these times the scouts hid themselves in fissures of the rocks or beneath sere leaves by the side of some prostrate tree, leaving their hiding places when the unwelcome visitors had taken their departure. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" You are gone, Raphael—and the beauty of nature departs: the sere and yellow leaves fall from the trees, while a thick autumn fog hangs suspended like a bier over the lifeless fields. Philosophical Letters of Frederich Schiller Withered now and strewn Upon the walks, all sere and dead they lie. Lays from the West When, in the sere And autumn leaves decayed, The mournful forest tells how quickly fade The glories of the year! The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy Isles of beauty and bloom are here, Groves, whose leafage is never sere, Teeming harvests of boundless wealth, Peace, and plenty, and buoyant health— Haste! haste! haste! Poems of the Heart and Home Their two sons lived with them in the capacity of loafers and, as things go in these rapid times of ours, appeared to be even older and more sere than their parents. A Fool and His Money The sere wounded one, O sweetest Dulcinea of Toboso, sends thee the health which he wants himself. The Junior Classics — Volume 4 Only a scrap of paper, old and faded, Only some withered rose-leaves, sere and dry; And one long tress of hair, all bright and golden, Dear relics of the happy days gone by. Lays from the West Plants well protected have a fine green appearance early in spring, and, even if no better, will give much better satisfaction than those whose leaves are sere and black from frost. Success with Small Fruits Last year's sere leaves rattled on the scrub oaks; the wind-blown juniper bushes made dark spots against the wet brown of the sand and the cart swayed lumberingly through the heavy road. Little Miss By-The-Day "What is that?" said one of the boatmen, pointing to a dark object which floated among the tangled debris of sere weeds and woodwork collected against the base of the mill. Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch Now o'er head sat a raven, On a sere bough, a grown great bird, and hoarse! English Literature for Boys and Girls Only, it may be, a lock of hair, Or a flower sere and dry; Only a pictured face, how fair In the light of the times gone by! Lays from the West With the exception of the stony bed where it entered the farm, most of its course was obscured by overhanging bushes and the sere, rank herbage of autumn. Success with Small Fruits And perhaps before the leaves are sere we may find them out among the sea lochs of the beautiful Frith of Clyde, or under the shadow of Ben Nevis. The Recreations of a Country Parson For weeks there had been no rain, and the Pacific side of the Isthmus was growing sere and yellow beneath the ceaseless glare of the sun. The Ne'er-Do-Well The sere stubble fields brooded in glamour, and the sky was pearly blue. The Story Girl Goodnight, beloved! now the grey-eyed gloaming Glides through the valleys with an unheard tread, And haunts the woodlands, where the wild winds moaning Wails o'er the leaves of Autumn, sere and dead. Lays from the West The grass had become ragged and sere and unkempt. Kilmeny of the Orchard Her dress brushed against the brittle grasses and sere ferns, and the moist night wind, loosed from wild places far away, blew her hair about her face. Further Chronicles of Avonlea Woods, woods, woods, leafy branches, foliage globes, or parachutes, green, brown, or sere in colour, forests one above another, rising, falling, and receding—a very leafy ocean. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley But old Tom's in the sere and yellow leaf: he's onnery. like all old men. The Winds of Chance He says:— “It was in the drear month of October, The leaves were all crisped and sere, Adown by the Tarn of Auber, In the misty mid regions of Weir.” Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Its tenderness, its pathos, its devotion, who does not remember, even when the sere leaves of autumn are rustling beneath his feet? Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures A weird, dreamy stillness had fallen upon the purple earth, the windless woods, the rain of the valleys, the sere meadows. Further Chronicles of Avonlea As for me, my days of youth an actyvity air over, an I'm in the sere an yaller leaf, with spells o' rheumatics. Lost in the Fog Caught from that blaze by wrath Divine, Lost branches of the once-loved vine, Now withered, spent, and sere, See Israel's sons, like glowing brands, Tossed wildly o'er a thousand lands For twice a thousand year. The Christian Year Now, I do not see that the world to-day presents any fair parallelism to that sere age of stresses in whose recasting Christianity played the part of a flux. First and Last Things O'erwhelming wealth, The wondrous gift of God so near, Which should have been delight and health Made heart and spirit sick and sere. Angel in the House While in far ways ’mong leaves just turning sere, With gaze serene and placid, walks Content. Yesterdays June sat down on the bed, thin and upright, like a little spirit in the sere and yellow. To Let I have both accounts set forth, under screaming headlines, in two of these sere newspapers upon my desk. In the Days of the Comet Barren as crime, anhungered and athirst, Blank miles of moor sweep inland, sere and blind, Where summer's best rebukes not winter's worst. A Century of Roundels Brightens you up to sere the misery of others; makes you feel that you're on peculiarly good terms with Providence. April Hopes So his rough foot hath bruised the dewy grass, And left it sere. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 Well," he said, "they brought me up to do nothing, and here I am in the sere and yellow, getting poorer every day. To Let Then Lady Charlotte set the canyon before her in rich and radiant coloring, while Gwen listened, gazing down upon the trail to where the elm tops could be seen, rusty and sere. The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills Soon the leaves become sere, and then they fall. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors I say to them; "A thinker of crooked thoughts upon Life in the sere, And on That which consigns men to night after showing the day to them?" Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses Now at the king's command the bearers bore him across the sere plateau towards a stone that lay almost in its centre. The Wizard Regard me as his he always should, He had said, and wed me he vowed he would In his prime or sere Most verily do, if ever he could. Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces The tops of the tall elms were sere and rusty, but the leaves of the rugged oaks that fringed the canyon's lips shone a rich and glossy brown. The Sky Pilot, a Tale of the Foothills The dead grass and the dead leaves made a sere, yellow world. The Sleuth of St. James's Square But when her love lay cold in death, Sunk in the black and silent tomb, All sere and withered was the wreath That wont so bright to bloom. Ballads I found myself in daily and hourly receipt of sere and yellow fragments, originally torn from some dead and gone newspaper, creased and seamed from long folding in wallet or pocketbook. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's The dust is on the chariot wheels, The sere is on the larch, Helmets and javelins And bridles flecked with foam— The flowers are dead, the world's ahead Upon the road to Rome. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 I went back an old-time lane In the fall o' year, There was wind and bitter rain And the leaves were sere. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 The grasses of the Campagna were brown and brittle, the trees sere and yellow in the Autumn, when they came to the Eternal City, the center of the world then as now. For Greater Things; the story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka It was green, green, green—the blue-green of the springing year, and sere and yellow green and tawny-brown green of autumn. The Mutiny of the Elsinore The fields showed sere and grayly lifeless in the patches between sodden snow-swathes. Further Adventures of Lad The elm lets fall its leaves before the frost, The very oak grows shivering and sere, The trees are barren when the summer's lost: But one tree keeps its goodness all the year. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 Ah, render sere no silken bent That by her head-stone waves; Let noon and golden summer blent Pervade these ocean graves. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 With what inalienable majesty they wear their rusty velvets and faded silks, flaunting sere ruffles of point-lace, which at a touch now would be shivered like cobwebs! Yet Again Now the days grow cold, As the year grows old, And the meadows are brown and sere; Brave robin redbreast Has gone from his nest, For this is the Fall of the year. Buttercup Gold, and other stories October's leaves were brown and sere, But skylarks sang by Teston Weir; And in November, at Mount's Bay, They sang upon our wedding day! Many Voices Far in the cedars' dusky stoles, Where the sere ground-vine weaves, The partridge drums funereal rolls Above the fallen leaves. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 There were sere and brown leaves still fluttering on the scrub-oaks. The Call of the Canyon All the sentimental stuff turning into sere and yellow leaves in the oldest portfolios, are to be found in full pristine lustre in Tarascon. Tartarin of Tarascon And if we seek to travel back 'Tis through a thicket dim and sere, With many a grave beside the track, And many a haunting form of fear. Ban and Arriere Ban It spread remoter and remoter, with only a few clusters of sere thorn bushes here and there, and the dim suggestions of some now waterless ravine, to break its desolation of yellow grass. Twelve Stories and a Dream Under my ruined passions, fallen and sere, The wild dreams stir like little radiant girls, Whom in the moulted plumage of the year Their comrades sweet have buried to the curls. Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters And now in his sere and yellow leaf one scornful look from the eyes of Panchita O'Brien had flooded the autumnal landscape with a tardy and delusive summer heat. Heart of the West Leaving the Palos road, I went to the sea as I had done yesterday and again sat under heaped sand with about me a sere grass through which the wind whined. 1492 When strawberry pottles are common and cheap, Ere elms be black, or limes be sere, When midnight dances are murdering sleep, Then comes in the sweet o' the year! Rhymes a la Mode Blue-eyed and bright of face but waning fast Into the sere of virginal decay, I view her as she enters, day by day, As a sweet sunset almost overpast. Poems He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere, Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. The Comedy of Errors She stands in her unholy oily leer A statue losing feature, weather-sick Mid draggled creepers of twined ivy sere. Poems — Volume 3 Now was she gone With the Silent, the God without tear, Like a bud peeping out of its sheath To be sundered and stamped with the sere. Poems — Volume 2 Just one cast more! how many a year Beside how many a pool and stream, Beneath the falling leaves and sere, I've sighed, reeled up, and dreamed my dream! Rhymes a la Mode The summer flowers are faded, the summer thoughts are sere. Poems When I realized that I was getting sere and mellow, and all the girls of my generation were going off on either hand, I tried to give Ludovic a hint. Chronicles of Avonlea O leaves of me Too sere for coronal wreaths, and fit alone For urns of memory, treasured, perhaps, as themes For hearts heroic, fearless singers and livers— Delphic Apollo. Spoon River Anthology Greek literature was rather in the sere and yellow leaf, be sure, when men thought of writing that sort of thing about it. Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh The sere leaves make a music vain, With melancholy chords; Like cries from some old battle-plain, Like clash of phantom swords. An Anthology of Australian Verse A hard north-easter fifty winters long Has bronzed and shrivelled sere her face and neck; Her locks are wild and grey, her teeth a wreck; Her foot is vast, her bowed leg spare and strong. Poems Can cracked and fallen leaves recall last June And leap up on the boughs, now stiff and sere? Sword Blades and Poppy Seed The crest on which we sat was high, and commanded a wide prospect of the crater landscape, and we saw it now all sere and dry in the late autumn of the lunar afternoon. The First Men in the Moon I whipped off my vest and flung it as a mark on the sere bayonets of the shrubs behind me, and then set off in a straight line towards the handkerchief. The First Men in the Moon My hurrying hoofs in the night go by, And the great flocks bleat their fear And follow the curve of the creeks burnt dry And the plains scorched brown and sere. An Anthology of Australian Verse |
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