 | 1857 - 780 pagine
...gazed adown the dreary street, But nought her aching sight did meet, Save one policeman and two cats. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " And if he cometh beery, He's rare to punch my head !" About the middle of the night,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 pagine
...said, ' My life is drSary He cometh not,' she said : She said, ' I am aweary, aweary 1 would that 1 were dead !' And ever when the moon was low And the shrill wind,, were up an' away In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway Uul when the... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 pagine
...Unlifted was the clinking hitch, Weeded and worn the ancient thatch, Upon the lonely moated grang-e. She only said *' My life is dreary, He cometh not," she .said : She said, '* I am aweary, aweary ; I would that I were dead !" Her tears fell with the dews at even,... | |
 | sir John William Kaye - 1837 - 922 pagine
...faithful to my memory — a widowed heart mourning for its buried love, and like Marianna in the poem, She only said, " My life is dreary ; He cometh not," she said. She said, " I am aweary — I am aweary ; I would that I were dead !" CHAPTER XX. THE DROP-CURTAIN.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pagine
...Unlifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary,- — I would that I were dead !" Her tears fell with the dews at... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pagine
...glimmered through the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead I" The sparrow's chirrup on the roof, The... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pagine
...Unlifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, — I would that I were dead !" Her tears fell with the dews at... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pagine
...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. She only said,...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... | |
 | 1840 - 368 pagine
...through the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without. VOL. II.— Z She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" The sparrow's chirrup on the roof, The... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 pagine
...Hard by a poplar shook alway, AH silver green with gnarled bark, For leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding gray. She only said,...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... | |
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My life is dreary, He cometh not,' she said ; She said, ' I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead... 
