 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by, — passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this — hi this most cheerless air, And where the woodbine shed...wheel, and with her joyless mien Sat, like a fate, and watched the flying thread. She had known Sorrow, — he had walked with her, Oft supped, and broke... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 páginas
...The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by — passed noiseless out of sight. " Amid all this — in this most cheerless air, And...torch ; " Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white haired matron, with monotonous tread, Plied the swift wheel, and with her joyless mien, Sat like... | |
 | 1852 - 620 páginas
...The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by — passed noiseless out of sight. " Amid all this — in this most cheerless air, And...— " Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white haired matron, with monotonous tread, Plied the swift wheel, and with her joyless mien, Sat like... | |
 | 1853 - 776 páginas
...night; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by — passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this — in this most cheerless air, And...Firing the floor with his inverted torch , — Amid nil this, the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread, Plied the swift... | |
 | 1853 - 698 páginas
...night; The thistledown, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by, passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this, in this most cheerless air, And where...crimson leaves, as if the Year stood there Firing the air with his inverted torch ; — Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron,... | |
 | 1853 - 692 páginas
...only ghost of flowers, g.iilcd glowly by, passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this, in this moat cheerless air, And where the woodbine shed upon the...crimson leaves, as if the Year stood there Firing the air with his inverted torch ; — Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The whiterhaired matron,... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - 1855 - 408 páginas
...the Orleans' dotard brow." The MarxillaiK, p. 212. THE CLOSING SCENE. ZKORATED BY AHDERTOX. Amid til this, the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous, tread, Piled the swift wheel, and with her joyless mien, gat like a Fate, and watched the dying thread." The... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1857 - 722 páginas
...the dreamy gloom; Alone the pheasant, drumming in the vale, Made echo to the distant cottage loom. Amid all this, in this most cheerless air, And where...there Firing the floor with his inverted torch— And Lowell: Here ever hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 páginas
...; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by — passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this — in this most cheerless air, And...scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread She had known sorrow. lie had walked with her, Oft supped, and broke the bitter a«hen crust, And in... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 páginas
...night ; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sail'd slowly by, pass'd noiseless out of sight. Amid all this, in this most cheerless air, And where the woodbine shed upon the porch Its orimson leaves, as if the year stood there Firing the floor with his inverted torch. THE CASTLE BY... | |
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There was no bud, no bloom upon the bowers; The spiders wove their thin shrouds night by night; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by, passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this, in this most cheerless air, And where the woodbine... 
