 | Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge ("Mrs. A.H. Hoge") - 1867 - 592 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 scene, The white-haired matron with monotonous... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - 1868 - 438 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... | |
 | 1869 - 730 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 center of the scene, The white-haired matron with monotonous... | |
 | Sallie A. Brock - 1869 - 660 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 scene, The white haired matron, with monotonous... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 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 the woodbine sheds upon the porch Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood there Firing the floor wife his inverted... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 396 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 upon the porch Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The whitu-haired matron, with monotonous... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1871 - 236 pages
...unfledged young, And where the oriole hung her swaying nest, By every light wind, like a censer, swung. 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. While yet her cheek was bright with summer bloom, Her country summoned,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...flower». Sailed slowly by, — passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this — in this most dreary hen it left me free. Since then, a its inverted torch, — Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous... | |
 | 1871 - 476 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 all this — the center 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... 
