...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...

...simplest, as over the richest colours, is very noticeable. Hard by a poplar stood alway, All silver green, with gnarled bark ; For leagues no other tree did mark The level waste, the rounding gray. And ever when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up and away, In the white curtain to and...

...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,...

...slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The clustered marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shpok alway, All silver-green with gnarled bark : For leagues...said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead ' " v. And ever when the moon was low,...

...clustered marish-mosses " — a poplar, a water-loving tree, that " Shook alway, All silver green -.nth gnarled bark ; For leagues no other tree did mark The level waste, the rounding grey." Or a whole Lincolnshire landscape of — " A §and-bailt ridge Of heaped hills that mound the...

...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,...

...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...said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said ; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead ! " v. And ever when the moon was low,...

...Unlifted was the clinking latch ; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Dpon 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...

...tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars." 2. " The dark attired Culdee." 3. " She only said, ' My life is dreary.' ' He cometh not,' she said — • She said, ' I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead.' " 4. "As half asleep his breath...

...with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marish mossc» crept. fault withal ; But, if they will not, throw away that spirit, And I shall find you empty of tha dark The level waste, the rounding prey. She only eaid, * My life is drearyHe cometh not,' ehe said...