 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1832 - 648 pages
...shrill wind,, were up an' away In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway Uul when the moon was very low And wild winds bound within their cell, The shadow of the poplar fell I pon her bed, across her brow «bo only said, ' The night is dreary, He cometh not,' she said»he... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 476 pages
...is dreary, He eometh not," she said : She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up an' away, In the white curtain, to and fro. She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up an' away. In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up an' away. In the white curtain, to and fro. She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...is dreary. He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up an' away. In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...aweary, I would that I were dead !" And ever, when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up an' away, In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the...of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, " The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" And ever, when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up an' away, In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very... | |
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark For leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding gray. " And ever when...of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow." This descriptive power is beautifully illustrated in the following passage from the " Lotos- Eaters."... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1843 - 260 pages
...dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead ! " ». And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds...of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, " The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I... | |
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In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low, And wild winds bound within their cell, The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, " The night is dreary, He cometh not,"... 
