Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by,... Poems - Page 11by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...paulatim posito. — 1. How bright a charm shines in her whole countenance. EXERCISE V. (Tennyson). Her tears fell with the dews at even ; Her tears fell...were dried ; She could not look on the sweet heaven Upon the middle of the night, 5 Waking she heard the night-fowl crow : The cock sung out an hour ere... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 476 pages
...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 tears fell...When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, " The night is dreary,... | |
| William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, — 1 would that I were dead !" Her tears fell with the dews at even, Her tears fell...When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, " The night is dreary,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...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 tears fell...When thickest dark did trance the sky. She drew her casement curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, ".The night is dreary.... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...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 tears fell...When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, " The night is dreary,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...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 tears fell...Either at morn or eventide. After the flitting of the hats, When thickest dark did tranee the sky, She drew her casement curtain by, And glanced athwart... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " 1 am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" Her tears fell with the dews at even, Her tears fell...When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, " The night is dreary,... | |
| England - 1842 - 538 pages
...dreary, He cometh not,' she said ; She said, ' I am a-weary, a-weary ; I would that I were dead !' 2. " Her tears fell with the dews at even ; Her tears fell...drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the gloomy flats. She only said, ' The night is dreary, He cometh not,' she said ; She said, ' I am a-weary,... | |
| Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...she passes away her days and nights, stand out before the mind like the most definite realities. " After the flitting of the bats When thickest dark...trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And ^lanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said ' The night is dreary, He cometh nut' she said ;... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 260 pages
...rusted nails fell from the knots That held the peach to the garden- wall. The broken sheds look'd sao> and strange : Unlifted was the clinking latch ; Weeded...did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain hy, And glanced athwart the glooming flats. She only said, " The night is dreary, He cometh not," she... | |
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