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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... "
The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical ... - Page 190
1853
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The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...noiseless out of sight. 12. Amid all this, jn this most cheerless air, And where the woodbine sheds upon the porch Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood there Firing the floor wife his inverted 1 torch— 13. Amid all this, the center of the scene, The white-hair'd matron, wife...
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A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sail'd ilowly by — paas'd 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...
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The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 pages
...The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sail'd slowly by — pass'd noiseless out of sight. 12. 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 wife his inverted4...
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Poems of Old Age

1861 - 144 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...
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A compendium of American literature, arranged by C.D. Cleveland. Stereotyped ed

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Suil'd slowly by — pass'd 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...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...night; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sail'il slowly by — pnss'd noiseless out of sight. Amid all this, — in this most cheerless air, And where the woodbine sheds upon the porch Its erimson leaves, as if the year stood there, Firing the floor with his inverted...
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The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 pages
...thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, • Sail'd slowly by—pass'd noiseless out of sight. 12. 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...
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A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...night; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sail'd slowly by — pass'd 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...
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 20-23

1866 - 578 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...crimson leaves, as if the year stood there, Firing the blood with its inverted torch ; Amid all this — the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron,...
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The boys in blue; or, Heroes of the 'rank and file', incidents and ...

Jane Currie Hoge - 1867 - 504 pages
...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 this, the centre of the scone, The white-haired matron with monotonous...
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