 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 pages
...that I were "dead!' About a stonecast from the wall A sluice with blacken 'd water's slept And o er it many, round and small, The clustered marishmosses crept Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark, »or leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding grey... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...dreary, He corneth not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead 1" • About a stone-cast from the wall, A sluice with blackened...marishmosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark, For leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding grey.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...day is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, 1 would that I were dead !" About a stone-cast from the wall, A sluice with blackened...marishmosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark, For leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding grey.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pages
...grange. She only said, " The day is dreary, Ahout a stone-cast from the wall, A sluice with hlackened waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The clustered marishmosses crept. Hard hy a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled hark, For leagues no other tree did dark The... | |
 | 1839 - 446 pages
...dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" 4. About a stone-cast from the wall, A sluice with blackened...slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The clustered marieh-mosses crept. Hard by acoplar shook alway, All silvergreen with gnarled bark, For leagues no... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 pages
...is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" About a stone-cast from the wall, A sluice with blackened waters slept, Hard by a poplar shook alway, AH silver green with gnarled bark, For leagues no other tree did dark... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...from the wall A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway,...with gnarled bark : For leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding gray. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead.' " About a stone cast from the wall, A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The clustered marish-mosses crept VOL. VIII. 77 Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark For leagues no other... | |
 | 1850 - 676 pages
...aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead.' " About a stone cast from the wall, A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The clustered marish-mosses crept VOL. VIII. 77 Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark For leagues no other... | |
 | 1844 - 671 pages
...dwelling of Mariana being well portrayed in such stanzas as these : " About a stone cast from the well, A sluice with blackened waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marsh-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook nhvny, All silver green with gnarled bark ; For... | |
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About the lonely moated grange. She only said, "The day is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead! 
