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" For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places: Turns the sky in the high window blank and reeling, Turns the long light that drops adown... "
Southern Quarterly Review - Page 309
edited by - 1845
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...black flies that crawl along the ceiling, Are all turning all the day, and we with all ! All day long, the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, ' O ye wheels (breaking off in a mad moaning,) Stop ! be silent for to-day !' " Ay, be silent ! let them hear each other breathing,...
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Ship and Shore: Or, Pencil Sketches on a Recent Voyage To, and a Tour In ...

John Spence (jr.), Young physician - England - 1847 - 160 pages
...in the high window blank and reeling — Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall — Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling — All are turning all the day, and we with all ! And sometimes we could pray — ' 0 ye wheels ! (breaking off in a mad moaning,) Stop ! be silent for to-day...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp].

Robert Kemp Philp - 1864 - 1126 pages
...sky in the high window blank and reeling ; Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall ; Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling ; All are turning, all the day, and we with all T — And all day the iron wheels are droning ; And sometimes we could pray, ' 0 ye wheels ' (breaking...
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The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1850 - 318 pages
...in (ha high window blank and reeling — Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall — Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling — All...a mad moaning,) — ' Stop ! be silent for to-day !' " Ay ! be silent ! Let them hear each other breathing For a moment, mouth to mouth — Let them...
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The English Review, Volumes 13-14

1850 - 1052 pages
...and reeling — Turns the long light that droppeth down the mall — Turn the black flies that craml along the ceiling — All are turning, all the day,...out in a mad moaning,) Stop ! be silent for to-day !" We have not even space to enumerate our favourites : " The Fourfold Aspect ;" " The Virgin Mary...
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The Gossips of Rivertown: With Sketches in Prose and Verse

Alice Bradley Haven - American fiction - 1850 - 358 pages
...sky in the high window, blank and reeling ; Turns the long light that droopcth down the wall ; Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling — All are turning all the day, and we with alL All day long the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, ' Oll, ye wheels,' (breaking...
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Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-century in Six Lectures

David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1851 - 398 pages
...long light that droppeth down the wall — Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling — t All are turning, all the day, and we with all. And...iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, 280 RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH. ' 0 ye wheels, (breaking out in a sad moaning,) Stop — be silent for...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22

American periodicals - 1851 - 606 pages
...in the high window blank and reeling — Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall — Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling — All are. turning, all the day, and ice with all. — And all day, the iron wheels aro droning ; And sometimes we could pray, 'O ye wheels,'...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...in the high window blank and reeling — Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall — Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling — All...out in a mad moaning), ' Stop ! be silent for to-day !' " ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. vin. Ay, be silent ! Let them hear each other hreathing For a moment,...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic, Volume 1

Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...in the high window blank and reeling — Turns the long light that droppeth down the wall — Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling — All...out in a mad moaning) ' Stop ! be silent for to-day !'" Ay ! be silent ! Let them hear each other breathing For a moment, mouth to mouth — Let them touch...
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