...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 gray. ***** Throughout all these exquisite lines occurs but one...

...Hard by a poplar shook alway, A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, For leagues no other tree did mark The level waste, the rounding gray. All silver-green with gnarled bark, ******* Throughout all these exquisite lines occurs but one instance...

...glimmer'd 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.' " TBHSTSON. ON a still winter's evening,...

...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...tree did mark The level waste, the rounding gray. ******* Throughout all these exquisite lines occurs but one instance of what the vulgar call ' poetic...

...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 cometh not," she...

...with blackened waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The clustered marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, All 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...

...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,...

...NEW BOND STREET. MDOOOUU. LONDON : PBBfTED BY JOSEPH MASTERS AND CO., ALDEKSaATE STEEET, CHAPTER I. " 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' " TENNYSON. " ONLY one more station...

...propriety of attidude and expression. The painting by JE Millais, illustrative of Tennyson's lines— " 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 perfect truth with which the idea...

...small, The cluster'd marish-mosses crept." This is not the moated grange of the poet; for he says, " Hard by a poplar shook alway, All silver-green with...For leagues no other tree did mark The level waste and rounding gray." Whereas Compton-Winyates is surrounded, hidden by, and bosomed in with trees. For...