 | Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...paulatim posito. — 1. How bright a charm shines in her whole countenance. EXERCISE V. (Tennyson). Her tears fell with the dews at even ; Her tears fell...were dried ; She could not look on the sweet heaven Upon the middle of the night, 5 Waking she heard the night-fowl crow : The cock sung out an hour ere... | |
 | 1857 - 780 pages
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 476 pages
...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, Her tears fell ere...look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement curtain... | |
 | sir John William Kaye - 1837 - 922 pages
...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.... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, — 1 would that I were dead !" Her tears fell with the dews at even, Her tears fell ere...look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement curtain... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...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, Her tears fell ere...look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the hats, When thickest dark did tranee the sky, She drew her casement curtain... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...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, Her tears fell ere...look on the sweet heaven. Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky. She drew her casement curtain... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...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 !" The sparrow's chirrup on the roof, The... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...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, Her tears fell ere...look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement curtain... | |
 | England - 1842 - 538 pages
...He cometh not,' she said ; She said, ' I am a-weary, a-weary ; I would that I were dead !' 2. " Her tears fell with the dews at even ; Her tears fell...look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain... | |
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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! 
