| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 pages
...sluice with blacken 'd water's slept And o er it many, round and small, The clustered marishmosses crept Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark, »or leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding grey bhe only said, ' My life is... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 pages
...sluice with blacken 'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marish-mosses crept. Hard by .a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark, For leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding grey. She only said, " My life is dreary, He eometh not," she said... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...cometh not," she said; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, 1 would that I were dead !" About a stone-cast from the wall, A sluice with blackened waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The clustered marishmosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark, For leagues no... | |
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead 1" • About a stone-cast from the wall, A sluice with blackened waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The clustered marishmosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark, For leagues no... | |
| 1839 - 446 pages
...not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" 4. About a stone-cast from the wall, A sluice with blackened waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The clustered marieh-mosses crept. Hard by acoplar shook alway, All silvergreen with gnarled bark, For leagues no... | |
| 1840 - 378 pages
...A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marishmosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark, For leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding gray. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said... | |
| 1850 - 676 pages
...blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The clustered marish-mosses crept VOL. VIII. 77 Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark For leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding gray. " And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The clustered marish-mosses crept VOL. VIII. 77 Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver green with gnarled bark For leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding gray. " And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were... | |
| 1844 - 671 pages
...dwelling of Mariana being well portrayed in such stanzas as these : " About a stone cast from the well, A sluice with blackened waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marsh-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook nhvny, All silver green with gnarled bark ; For... | |
| Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 390 pages
...two short extracts from it which follow: — About a stone-cast from the wall A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The...marish mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver-green with gnarled bark, For leagues no other tree did dark The level waste, the rounding grey.... | |
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