| Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 pages
...quibus ignovisse velimus (Horace) — Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants. Taedium vita — She only said, My life is dreary ; He cometh not, she said. She said, I am aweary, aweary ; O God ! that I were dead ! Tempus omnia revelat — The slow sweet... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 186 pages
...glimmer'd thro ' 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,... | |
| mrs. Randolph - 1875 - 382 pages
...dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, ' My life is dreary, He cometh not,'...aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !'" Mariana. TTOR a few days all things went on very -*' quietly at Tynedale Park ; but though she seemed outwardly... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...silver-green with gnarled bark : For leagues no other tree did mark The level waste, the rounding gray. 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 " And ever when the moon was low, And... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 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... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...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 even; Her... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...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 even... | |
| William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 240 pages
...tope but as the linnets sing. 24. Thy dress was like the lilies, And thy heart as pure as they. 25. She only said, " My life is dreary ;" " He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" 26. Night wanes — the vapours round... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...glimmer'd thro' 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,... | |
| August Kühne - 1879 - 278 pages
...these two parted.' CHAPTER XII. THE WEB OF TREACHERY. 'A man may smile and smile, And be a villain.' ' She only said : " My life is dreary ; He cometh not," she said.' CHAPTER XII. THE \VE13 OF TREACHERY. THE Princess sighed deeply. * But, Nicolas, the Baroness — how... | |
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