 | John Burroughs - American poetry - 1901 - 388 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...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... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...pale The white-hair'd matron with monotothere Firing the floor with his inverted torch : ease, 661 2 watch'd the flying thread. She had known Sorrow, — he had walk'd with her, Oft supp'd and broke the... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 pages
...; 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... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1905 - 872 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 the woodbine sheds uIxm the porch Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood there Firing the floor with his inverted... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 614 pages
...night, The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Bailed 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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American poetry - 1906 - 548 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1912 - 616 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...floor with his inverted torch; — Amid all this, the center of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread, Plied the swift wheel, and with... | |
 | Delbert Moyer Staley - Elocution - 1914 - 378 pages
...ghost of flower, 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 in verted torch; Amid all this — the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous... | |
 | Jessie Belle Rittenhouse - American poetry - 1915 - 346 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...floor with his inverted torch; Amid all this, the center of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread. Plied the swift wheel, and with... | |
 | 1915 - 368 pages
...lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old. Ring in the thousand years of peace. — TENNYSON AMID all this, the centre of the scene, The white-haired...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... | |
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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... 
