 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 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...swift wheel, and with her joyless mien, Sat, like ;i Fate, and watched the flying thread. She had known Sorrow, — he had walked w'ith her, Oft supped... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - 1875 - 252 pages
...[gloom; Made echo 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... | |
 | 1876 - 508 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 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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 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... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...in this most cheerless air, And where the woodbine sheds upon the porch Its crimson leaves, as it' the year stood there Firing the floor with his inverted...white-haired matron, with monotonous tread, Plied her swift wheel, and with her joyless mien Sat like a Fate, and watched the-nying thread. She had known... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 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... | |
 | Thomas Edie Hill - 1876 - 360 pages
...flow-el's. 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 it:, inverted torch ; Amid all this, the center of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 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... | |
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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... 
