 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...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 ! ' " " We st.all hoca all the world drink... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 pages
...glimmer'd thro' 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, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead ! " The sparrow's chirrup on the roof,... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...repetition, every stanza ending with the same lines, and those not too skilfully constructed — " She only said, ' My life is dreary ; He cometh not,' she said .' She said, " I am aweary, aweary ; I would that I were dead !'" This piece of Mariana has been very... | |
 | 1844 - 671 pages
...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 said ; She said, ' I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !' " Mr. Tennyson might have contrived... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...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 ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead !" And ever when the moon was low, And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...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 ! " II. Her tears fell with the dews at... | |
 | Henry Curling - 1846 - 1012 pages
...glimmerM through the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Strange 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*." It seemed to the fair captive that the... | |
 | Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pages
...was hushed at even-tide, might be caught distinctly at some distance by an attentive ear. CHAPTER IX. 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. How wearily,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 pages
...repetition, every stanza ending with the same lines, find those not too skilfully constructed — " She only said, ' My life is dreary ; He cometh not,' she said ! She said, " I am aweary, aweary; I would that I were d'ead !'" This piece of Mariana has been very... | |
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My life is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead! 
