What is "ungathered"

Usage examples of "ungathered".

But is it not hard that my frailties of temper should be visited with such a penance--that, for a burst or two of natural passion, I should be doomed to see fade before me ungathered such a rich harvest of glory to God and honour to chivalry?

Under the apple trees, the ungathered fruit lay rotting like gouts of blood.

Cocoons of ungathered silkworms hung discolored among the ragged branches, and the ground beneath was thick with a papery litter of dead grubs and moths.

She wore a sleeveless gown of indigo blue that flowed ungathered to the floor.

His hand was very near her flaming hair that was now ungathered and fell about her shoulders under the silver shawl and over the orange satin gown.

He had an oval, olive-tinted face, with long black hair, ungathered in a queue, and there was something of the poet or of the artist in his whole appearance.

Though I showed him unmeasured wealth in his own fields, ungathered crops of new enjoyment, he was unwilling to take them, but was content with hay.

The cornstalks were stacked in serried array, like Indian wigwams, and heaps of apples, red and yellow and russet brown, lay ungathered in the orchards.

The bright colour is pleasant, but it is a flower best left ungathered, for its odour is not sweet.