 Made by her candle, she had care To work some distance from the bed. Without, there was a cold moon up, Of winter radiance sheer and thin; The hollow halo it was in Was like an icy crystal cup. Through the small room, with subtle sound Of flame, by vents...  The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Page 161by Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1911 - 684 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 pages
...altar-cup. Through the small room, with subtle sound Of flame, by vents the fireshine drove And redden'd. In its dim alcove The mirror shed a clearness round....wine, it drank The stillness and the broken lights. Silence was speaking at my side With an exceedingly clear voice : I knew the calm as of a choice Made... | |
 | 1870 - 708 pages
...commonplace states and things : " Through the small room, with subtle sound Of flame, by vents the fireshine drove And reddened. In its dim alcove The mirror shed a clearness round. " I had been sittrng up some nights, And my tired mind felt weak and blank : Like a sharp strengthening wine it... | |
 | Harry Buxton Forman - English poetry - 1871 - 536 pages
...light from candle, fire, and moon, the narrator says, ' I had been sitting up some nights, And my tir'd mind felt weak and blank ; Like a sharp strengthening...stillness and the broken lights. Twelve struck. That sonnd, which all the years Hear in each hour, crept off; and then The ruffled silence spread again,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1873 - 840 pages
...writes, as he supposes, simply, he writes quasi-prose. Here, for instance, is a specimen stanza : — ' I had been sitting up some nights, And my tired mind...wine it drank The stillness and the broken lights.' In this stanza, the first two lines are onlysimple because they are mean. The two last are not simple... | |
 | 1873 - 892 pages
...«rites, as he supposes, simply, he writes quasi-prose. Ноге, for instance, is a specimen stanza : — I had been sitting up some nights, And my tired mind...wine it drank The stillness and the broken lights. In this stanza, the first two lines arc only simple because they arc mean. The two last are not simple... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 596 pages
...writes, as he supposes, simply, he writes quasi-prose. Here, for instance, is a specimen stanza : — ' I had been sitting up some nights, And my tired mind...wine it drank The stillness and the broken lights.' In this stanza, the first two lines are only simple because they are mean. The two last are not simple... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...writes, as he supposes, simply, he writes quasi-prose. Here, for instance, is a specimen stanza : — ' I had been sitting up some nights, And my tired mind...wine it drank The stillness and the broken lights.' In this stanza, the first two lines are only simple because they are mean. The two last are not simple... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 600 pages
...simply, he writes quasi-prose. Here, for instance, is a specimen stanza : — ' I had been Bitting up some nights, And my tired mind felt weak and blank...wine it drank The stillness and the broken lights.' In this stanza, the first two lines are only simple because they are mean. The two lastare not simple... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - Elocution - 1877 - 346 pages
...an icy, crystal cup. 6. Thrp.ugh the small room, with subtle sound Of flame, by vents the fireshine drove And reddened. In its dim alcove The mirror shed a clearness round. 6. J. had been sitting up some nights, And my tired mind felt weak and blank; Like a sharp, strengthening... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - Elocution - 1877 - 350 pages
...an icy, crystal cup. 5. Through the small room, with subtle sound Of flame, by vents the fireshine drove And reddened. In its dim alcove The mirror shed a clearness round. 6. I had been sitting up some nights, And my tired mind felt weak and blank; Like a sharp, strengthening... | |
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