...fell from the knots That held the pear to the garden-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: 5 Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the...said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; 10 She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" Her tears fell with the dews at even;...

...judge said — but if only I knew for sure what happened to Jeff." He smiled at her sympathetically. "She only said, 'My life is dreary, he cometh not,' she said; she said 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!' " She laughed nervously. "Are you making...

...crusted, one and all; The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gabled wall. . . She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead." Both use dreary and weary. I have had playmates,...

...all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken shed looked sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch;...said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" All day within the dreamy house. The doors...

...thickly crusted, one and all; The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted...the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. There were no fish in the goldfish pond; only overgrown waterlilies that almost covered the surface...

...pane; the mouse Behind the mouldering •wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about. . . . She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" (8) Centripetal withdrawal only leads Tennyson...

...ChTr; FaBV; FaFP; FiP; HelP; LiTB; NAEL-2; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-2; OBEV; OBNC; OnMSP; PoEL-5; TEP Mariana 92 nty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails: (1 She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!' 97 O that 'twere possible, After long grief...

...with pictorial vividness: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted...the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. One has the sense of a camera moving from one image to another. now in close-up (as in the first line...

...thickly crusted, one and all; The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted...the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. (1-8)72 The details of the neglected garden arc meant to prepare the reader for Mariana's unhappiness....

...Mariana refers directly to a passage in a poem of that name by the Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson; She only said, 'My life is dreary, He cometh not', she said; She said, I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!' (Tennyson, Selected Works; 4) Mariana in...