The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: 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... Evelyn Marston - Page 233by Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1856Full view - About this book
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 pages
...solitude ! •' Mariana in tliu mofiied grange." Measure for Measure. With bladest moss the flower-pots Were thickly crusted, one and all, The rusted nails...the knots That held the peach to the garden wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange, Unlifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn the ancient... | |
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...the earliest promise of his genius.] EXTRACT FROM TENNYSON. MARIANA. With blackest moss the flower plots Were thickly crusted, one and all ; The rusted...the knots That held the peach to the garden wall. The broken sheds looked sad and strange, Unlifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn the ancient... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pages
...humility, Perforce, like those whom Gideon schooled with hriars. N n 2 W1TH blackest moss the flower plots Were thickly crusted, one and all ; The rusted...from the knots That held the peach to the garden wall . The broken sheds looked sad and strange, Unlifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn the ancient... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pages
...humility, Perforce, like those whom Gideon schooled with briars. MARIANA. WITH blackest moss the flower plots Were thickly crusted, one and all ; The rusted...the knots That held the peach to the garden wall. The hroken sheds looked sad and strange, Unlifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn the aneient... | |
| 738 pages
...Peachblossom. One chief mark of desolation in the moated grange of Mariana, we are told, was that " The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the peach to the garden wall." TENNYSON. Strawberries ! What a summer music there is in their very name ! What a pleasant memory of green leaves... | |
| 1840 - 368 pages
...wife of mine The best of all that's not divine ! ALFRED TENNYSON. WITH blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all ; The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the peach to the garden-wall. The broken sheds looked sad and strange, Unlifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...MARIANA. " Mariana in the moated grange."—Mcatturf for Measure I. WITH blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all, The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the peach to the garden-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange, Unlifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn... | |
| 1842 - 538 pages
...stirring and picturesque of his poems, " the Bridal of Triermain." " With blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all ; The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the peach to the garden-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange, Unlifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...MARIANA. ' Mariana in the moated grange."— Meature far Meiuare. WITH blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all : The rusted nails...the knots That held the peach to the garden- wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange : Unlifted was the clinking latch ; Weeded and worn the ancient... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 560 pages
...him — in his golden prime. The good Haroun Alraschid ! MARIANA. WITR blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all, The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the peach to the garden-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange, Unlifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn... | |
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