 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...echo to the distant cottage loom. There was no bud, no bloom upon the bowers; The spiders moved their thin shrouds night by night, The thistle-down, the...by, — passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this — hi this most cheerless air, And where the woodbine shed upon the porch Its crimson leaves, as if... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...to the distant cottage loom. " There was no bud, no bloom upon the bowers ; The spiders wove their thin shrouds night by night ; The thistle-down, the...crimson leaves, as if the year stood there, Firing the floor with his inverted torch ; — " Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white haired matron,... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - American poetry - 1855 - 408 pages
...echo to the distant cottage loom, l There was no bud, no bloom upon the bowers; The spiders wove their thin shrouds night by night; The thistle-down, the...crimson leaves, as if the Year stood there Firing the floor with his inverted torch;— Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron,... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1857 - 722 pages
...the dreamy gloom; Alone the pheasant, drumming in the vale, Made echo to the distant cottage loom. Amid all this, in this most cheerless air, And where...crimson leaves, as if the Year stood there Firing the floor with his inverted torch— And Lowell: Here ever hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...echo to the distant cottage loom. There was no bud, no bloom upon the bowers ; The spiders wove their thin shrouds night by night ; The thistle-down, the...crimson leaves, as if the year stood there, Firing the floor with his inverted torch — Amid all this, the centre of the scene, The white-haired matron,... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 pages
...echo to the distant cottage loom. 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, Sail'd slowly by, pass'd noiseless out of sight. Amid all this, in this most cheerless air, And where... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...echo to the distant cottage-loom. 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, Sail'd ilowly by — paas'd noiseless out of sight. Amid all this, — in this most cheerless air,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...to the distant cottage loom. 11. 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, Sail'd slowly by—pass'd noiseless out of sight. 12. Amid all this, jn this most cheerless air, And... | |
 | Old age in literature - 1861 - 144 pages
...in the vale, There was no bud, no bloom upon the bowers ; The spiders wove their thin shrouds nigiit by night ; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers,...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 spiders wove their thin shrouds night by night; The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, Sailed slowly by, passed noiseless out of sight. 
