 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...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...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 the... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1878 - 708 pages
...; 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...The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread Plied her swift wheel, and with her joyless mien Sat like a Fate, and watched the flying thread. 597 READ.... | |
 | Textbooks - 1878 - 254 pages
...[gloom ; Made ecLo to the distant cottage loom. 11. There was no bud, no bloom upon the bowers; 12. Amid all this, in this most cheerless air, And where...stood there Firing the floor with his inverted torch; — 13. Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread, Plied... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...night; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by, passed noiseless out of sight. 12. Amid all this, in this most cheerless air, And where...stood there Firing the floor with his inverted torch — 13. Amid all this, the center of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread, Plied... | |
 | George Melville Baker - Elocution - 1879 - 734 pages
...flowers, Sailed slowly by — passed noiseless out of sight. Amid this — • in this most dreary air, And where the woodbine shed upon the porch Its...as if the year stood there, Firing the floor with its inverted torch; Amid all this — the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous... | |
 | Thomas Edie Hill - Business - 1879 - 398 pages
...And where the woodbine shed upon the porch Amid all this, the center of the scene, The while-haired matron, with monotonous tread, Plied the swift wheel, and, with her joyless mien, Sate like a fate, and watched the Hying thread. She had known sorrow. Пс had walked with her, Oft... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...night ; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sail'd slowly by, pass'd noiseless out of sight. entreating entrance at my chamber-door, Some late...and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; : 640 641 Plied the swift wheel, ahd with her joyless mien, Sat, like a Fate, and watch'd the flying... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1881 - 704 pages
...; 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...porch Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood there, Firlng the floor with his inverted torch — Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white-haired... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Amusements - 1884 - 956 pages
...flowers, Sailed slowly by — passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this — in this most dreary air, And where the woodbine shed upon the porch Its...as if the year stood there, Firing the floor with its inverted torch; Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous... | |
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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... 
