...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 grey. She only said, ' My lite is dreary, He cometh not,' she said ; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary,...

...is drearyHe cometh not,' ehe said ; She said, * I am aweary, aweary ; I would that I were dead 1' ' And ever when the moon was low. And the shrill winds were up an' away, In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very...

...date, and in the same handwriting ; it was only four short lines, the refrain of Tennyson's Mariana : 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 date placed against these lines...

...LADY oP SmU-HiNo.1 Her tears fell with the dews at even : Her tears fell ere the dews were dried ; She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; MARIANA. HE river floweth sadly down ; — .' She watches day and night ; 7 Nor, till she's turned...

...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,...

...silver green with gnarled bark, For leagnes no other tree did dark The level waste, the ronnding grey. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I wonld that I were dead !" And ever when the moon was low, And...

...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...

...And o'er it many, round and email, The clnster'd marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alwny, All silver-green with gnarled bark: For leagues no...mark The level waste, the rounding gray. She only paid, " My life Is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that...

...Unlifted was the clinking latch ; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. B 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...

...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!' ' Mariana.' Tennyson. ON the night before...