Old faces glimmered through the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without. She only said, 'My life is dreary, 7o He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead! Lady-bird - Pàgina 258per lady Georgiana Charlotte Fullerton - 1852Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1840 - 368 pàgines
...fly sung i' the pane ; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about. Old faces glimmer'd through the doors, Old...upper floors, Old voices called her from without. VOL. II.— Z She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 pàgines
...mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shrieked, , Or from the crevice peered about. Old faces glimmered through the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors,...from without. She only said, " My life is dreary, The sparrow's chirrup on the roof, The slow clock ticking, and the sound Which to the wooing wind aloof... | |
| 1842 - 416 pàgines
...fly sung i' the pane ; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about. Old faces glimmer'd through the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices call'd her from without. She only said, ' my life is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, '... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 pàgines
...imaginative promptitude and coincidence should such things be read, or nothing will come of the reading. " Old faces glimmer'd through the doors, Old footsteps...the upper floors, Old voices called her from without !" But since "the low sky raining" in the autumn eve, when the white-robed dying form of the Lady of... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 330 pàgines
...imaginative promptitude and coincidence should such things be read, or nothing will come of the reading. " Old faces glimmer'd through the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old roices called her from without !" But since "the low sky raining" in the autumn eve, when the white-robed... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 pàgines
...should such things be read, or nothing will come of the reading. " Old faces glimmer'd through the doon, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without !" But since " the low sky raining" in the autumn eve, when the white-robed dying form of the Lady... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pàgines
...fly sung i' the pane ; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about. Old faces glimmer'd through the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices call'd her from without. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, "... | |
| Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pàgines
...peopled it with those who had lived there in her days of hope, happiness, and love. Old faces glimmer' d through the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without. She had a faint hope of hiring the house from its new proprietor. "And then," she said, one evening, weeping,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1846 - 332 pàgines
...fly sung i' the pane ; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about. Old faces glimmer'd through the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices call'd her from without. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pàgines
...fly sung i' the pane ; the mouse Behind the mouldering wainscot shrick'd, Or from the crevice pecr'd about. Old faces glimmer'd through the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices call'd her from without. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, "... | |
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