| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1881 - 428 pages
...torcb, — \rnid all this, the center of tho scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonons I'lied the swift wheel, and with her joyless mien Sat like a fate, and watched the Hying thread. She had known Sorrow. He had walked with her, Oft supped. and broke with... | |
| Gus Williams - 1881 - 556 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 where the woodbine sheds upon the porch Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood there Firing the floor with his inverted... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 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...porch Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood there Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron with monotonous tread Plied the swift... | |
| Thomas Buchanan Read - 1883 - 430 pages
...The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by, passed noiseless out of sight. Arnid all this, in this most cheerless air, And where the...Firing the floor with his inverted torch ; — Amid nil this, the centre of tlie scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread, Plied the swift... | |
| Thomas Edie Hill - Business - 1883 - 542 pages
...of 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 nil this, the center of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous... | |
| Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 pages
...night; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by — passed noiseless out of eight. Amid all this, in this most cheerless air, And where the woodbine sheds upon the porch Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood there Firing the floor with his inverted... | |
| Thomas Edie Hill - 1884
...ghost of 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 tbl.«, the center of the scene. The white-haired matron, with monotonous... | |
| Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...the only ghost of flowers, Amid all this,—in this most cheerless air, And where the woodbine sheds upon the porch Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood there, Firing the lloor with his inverted torch, Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white-hair' d matron, with... | |
| Thomas Buchanan Read - American poetry - 1886 - 60 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...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... | |
| American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...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...wheel, and with her joyless mien Sat, like a fate, and watched the flying thread. ßhe had known Sorrow,— he had walked with her. Oft supped, and broke... | |
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