 | Jessie Belle Rittenhouse - 1915 - 344 pages
...leaves, as if the Year stood there Firing the floor with his inverted torch; Amid all this, the center of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous...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... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 748 pages
...flowers, Sailed slowly by — passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this, in this most dreary aid, And where the woodbine shed upon the porch Its crimson...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... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...flowers, Sailed slowly by, passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this, in this most cheerless air, 45 : ' Sail on I sail on ! and on ! ' Then pale and...that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck center of the scene, The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread, so Plied her swift wheel, and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 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 Hying thr.-ud. She had known Sorrow, — he had walked wit!i her, Oft supped, and broke... | |
 | 1854 - 694 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 porcl Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood there, Firing the floor with his inverted... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pages
...by night, The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by, — passed noiseless out of grew still ! And there lay the steed with his nostril...rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, watched the flying thread. She had known Sorrow, — he had walked with her, Oft supped, and broke... | |
 | 1853 - 792 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 hud walked with her, Oft supped, and broke the... | |
 | Emerson Venable - 1909 - 394 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... | |
 | 1881 - 510 pages
...Closing Scene," where death and winter are compared, and an old matron represents the closing year : 1 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... | |
 | 1893 - 688 pages
...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...white-haired matron, with monotonous tread, Plied her swift wheel, and with her joyless mien Sat like a fate, and watched the flying thread. She had... | |
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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... 
