Death of the Flowers, The

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 392 words | Copyright

Death of the Flowers, The, threnody by Bryant on the death of his sister, published in 1825 and collected in his Poems (1832). In six‐line stanzas of rhymed seven‐stress lines, the poem expresses Bryant's restrained but profound grief, identifying the passing of the woman with the decay of summer's beauty in “The melancholy days …the saddest of the year.”

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