 | 1844 - 454 sidor
...PROFESSOR LONGFELLOW, THE AMERICAN POET. YES, the Year is growing old, And his eye is pale and bleared ! Death, with frosty hand and cold, Plucks the old man...stands in the foul weather, The foolish, fond Old Year, Croiraed with wild flowers and with heather, Like weak, despised Lear, A king,— a king ! Then comes... | |
 | 1839 - 584 sidor
...anthems roll ; They are chanting solemn masses, Saying, ' Pray for this poor soul. Pray — pray !' And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads...drops of rain, And patter their doleful prayers ; But it is all in vain — All in vain ! There he stands in the foul weather, The foolish, fond Old Year,... | |
 | 1839 - 606 sidor
...beads in drops of rain, And patter their doleful prayers ; But it is all in vain — All in vain 1 There he stands in the foul weather, The foolish, fond Old Year, Crown'd with wild-flowere and with heather, Like weak, despised Lear, A king — aking! Then comes... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1840 - 616 sidor
...hooded clouds, like friáis, Tell their heads in drops of rain, And patter their doleful prayer« ; But their prayers are all in vain, All in vain ! There...fond Old Year, Crowned with wild flowers and with beathei, Like weak, despised Lear, A king, — a king ! Then comes the summer-like day, Bids the old... | |
 | 1840 - 326 sidor
...like anthems, roll ; They are chanting solemn masses. Singing ; Pray for this poor aoul, And ,l,'- hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops...And patter their doleful prayers ; But their prayers arc oil in vain, All in vain ! There lic stands in the foul weather, The foolish, fond Old Year, Crowned... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 sidor
...anthems, roll ; They are chanting solemn masses, Singing ; Pray for this poor soul, Pray, — pray ! The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in...stands, in the foul weather, The foolish, fond Old Year, Crown'd with wild flowers and with heather, Like weak, despised LEAR, A king, — a king ! Then comes... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 278 sidor
...anthems, roll ; They are chanting solemn masses, Singing ; Pray for this poor soul, Pray, — pray ! The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in...stands, in the foul weather, The foolish, fond Old Year, Crown'd with wild flowers and with heather, Like weak, despised Lear, A king, — a king ! MASS FOR... | |
 | Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1858 - 450 sidor
...anthems roll ; They are chunting solemn masses, Singing " Pray for this poor soul, Pray— Pray !" And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads...their doleful prayers ; But their prayers are all in rain, All in vain ! There he stands in the foul weather, The foolish, fond old year ; Crowned with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 538 sidor
...Singing ; Pray for this poor soul, Pray, — pray ! The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their heads in drops of rain, And patter their doleful prayers;...stands, in the foul weather, The foolish, fond Old Year, Crown'd with wild flowers and with heather, Like weak, despised LEAK. A king, — a king ! Then comes... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 sidor
...language." " Four hours the sun his high meridian throne Had left." Falconer's Shipwreck, Canto 2. " The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain." Longfellow. " He is like his brother." " He is unlike any other mortal." "The house stands near a rhyr."... | |
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And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain, And patter their doleful prayers ; — But their prayers are all in vain, All in vain... 
