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" He found a Woman in the cave, A solitary Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame ; Her face was as a Damsel's face, And yet her hair was grey. "
The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Esq. ...: Thalaba - Page 94
by Robert Southey - 1821
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 pages
...Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame ; Her face...yet her hair was grey. She bade him welcome with a smilej And still continued spinning, And singing as she spun. . . . The thread she spun it gleam'd...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 4

Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pages
...Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame ; Her face...spinning, And singing as she spun. . . . The thread she spun it gleam'd like gold In the light of the odorous fire, Yet was it so wonderously thin, That,...
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The English poets, selections, ed. by T.H. Ward. Wordsworth to Dobell ...

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame ; Her face...spinning, And singing as she spun. . . . The thread she spun it gleam'd like gold In the light of the odorous fire, Yet was it so wonderously thin, That,...
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 pages
...Woroan, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her .face was bright with the flame ; Her face...spinning, And singing as she spun. . . . The thread she spun it gleam'd like gold In the light of the odorous fire, Yet was it so wonderously thin, That,...
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 pages
...Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame ; Her face...spinning, And singing as she spun. . . . The thread she spun it glcam'd like gold In the light of the odorous fire, Yet was it so wonderously thin, That,...
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Higher reading book for schools, colleges, and general use, ed. by C.M. Yonge

Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 pages
...woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame ; Her face...spun. The thread the woman drew Was finer than the gossamer ; The song she sang was low and sweet, But Thalaba knew not the words. He laid his bow beside...
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

1885 - 686 pages
...Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame; Her face was as a Damsel's face, And yet her hair was gray. She bade him welcome with a smile, And still continued spinning, And singing as she spun. . ....
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

1885 - 668 pages
...And her face was bright with the flame; Her face was as a Damsel's face, And yet her hair was gray. She bade him welcome with a smile, And still continued...spinning, And singing as she spun. . . . The thread she spun it gleam'd like gold In the light of the odorous fire, Yet 'vas it so wonderously thin, That,...
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The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 1

Edward Dowden - 1886 - 584 pages
...pinewood fire, in swe low tones, an unintelligible song : — " The pine-boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame ; Her face was as a damsel's face, And yet her hair was gray." This, then, was Maimuna, and Shelley was indeed caught in s almost invisible thread spun around...
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Fifty Years of English Song: The earlier poets. The Blackwood coterie, and ...

Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 332 pages
...THREAD. FROM BOOK VIII. HE found a Woman in the cave, A solitary Woman, Who by the fire was spinning. Her face was as a Damsel's face, And yet her hair was gray. She bade him welcome with a smile, And still continued spinning, And singing as she spun. The...
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