...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!' "The broken sheds look'd sad and strange"—...

...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 ; 70 She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" The sparrow's chirrup on the roof,...

...judge said — but if only I knew for sure what happened to Jeff." He smiled at her sympathetically. "She only said, 'My life is dreary, he cometh not,' she said; she said 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!' " She laughed nervously. "Are you making...

...crusted, one and all; The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gabled wall. . . She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead." Both use dreary and weary. I have had playmates,...

...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!" All day within the dreamy house. The doors...

...pane; the mouse Behind the mouldering •wainscot shriek'd, Or from the crevice peer'd about. . . . She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" (8) Centripetal withdrawal only leads Tennyson...

...ChTr; FaBV; FaFP; FiP; HelP; LiTB; NAEL-2; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-2; OBEV; OBNC; OnMSP; PoEL-5; TEP Mariana 92 nty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails: (1 She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!' 97 O that 'twere possible, After long grief...

...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 said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!' And ever when the moon was low, And the...

...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 said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!'23 Tennyson's gnarled poplar serves the same...

...Mariana refers directly to a passage in a poem of that name by the Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson; She only said, 'My life is dreary, He cometh not', she said; She said, I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!' (Tennyson, Selected Works; 4) Mariana in...