Flowers

( The Death of the ). In the poem bearing this title William Cullen Bryant thus names the American flowers that have been called “the crown-jewels of the year.” “On the hill the golden-rod And the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook, In autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear, cold heaven As falls the plague on men And the brightne of their smile was gone From upland, glade and glen.” The Death of the Flowers (1821-1834).