| 单词 | drear |
| 例句 | Gleams of sun were striking through the hurrying clouds, and the forest now looked less grey and drear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But to the fields of the Pelennor, under the shadow of Mindolluin, there came no gleam: they were brown and drear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Only for the nonce. Storm’s End and Dragonstone are lightly held and must soon fall. And the Nightfort is a haunted ruin, a drear and dreadful place.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The forest where Faramir had stood seemed empty and drear, as if a dream had passed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She was still no more than a girl, and still waiting for that plateau of happiness, that hand of a precious Lord who, when her way grew drear, would always linger near. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Daylight began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o’clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Beyond the river the land appeared flat and empty, formless and vague, until far away it rose again like a wall, dark and drear. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When my way grows drear Precious Lord linger near, When my life is almost gone Hear my cry hear my call Hold my hand lest I fall Take my hand, precious Lord, lead me on. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Here where the fire’s hot breath came, they had grown black and drear. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Jon had seen an abandoned hold-fast once, a drear place where nothing moved but the wind and the stones kept silent about whatever people had lived there. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Elévée ran off to play with Pascal, rather than be trapped into this drear exercise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A wind that had sprung up in the night was blowing now keenly from the North, and it was rising; but the lands about looked grey and drear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z At the stream bank she sets out their drear picnic, which is only dense, crumbling bread daubed with crushed peanuts and slices of bitter plantain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Only now she had a clearer idea of what drear meant. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote an introductory limerick calling the verses "boring and drear". Barker rewrote 'boring' Lear book 2012-06-13T10:09:26Z It’s like Britain’s last kitchen-sink movie, a film that focuses on pure domestic drear. Monty Python film director Terry Jones: full of fun and innocence – and a very naughty boy 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z This Portland-based duo is signed to the San Francisco label Father/Daughter, and for good reason: their sound is both California glamour and Pacific Northwest drear. Seattle-area music-and-nightlife events Aug. 24-30: Ed Sheeran, Pure Bathing Culture and more 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Among them was an introductory limerick he wrote, calling the verses "boring and drear". 'Boring' Barker limericks sold 2012-06-21T16:08:53Z The design scheme of the production can be summed up as fluorescent drear, presumably to convey the grimness of Jamie’s school. Review: A drag queen is born: 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' arrives at the Ahmanson 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z I imagined the Lonely Mountains isolated by their own vastness and strangeness, their slow, cold hearts filled with a drear and incurable loneliness. Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z The hard edges of the city recede, and soggy drear of our winter rainworld are blitzed by gleaming powder. The glory of snow — and a two-horse open sleigh — in the winter wonderland of Leavenworth 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z In the gusty drear of the morning and then the breezy sunshine of midday amid the rude crosswinds near the Irish Sea, they shot their 65s. Win, vacation, shoot 65 at British Open. It almost makes you hate Koepka and Spieth. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z In search of better opportunities in the postwar drear of Great Britain, his parents settled in Michigan and his father worked in the automobile industry. Former D.C. Council member Jim Graham has died 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The mood is drear, the images often dark; the music is dark too, leaning on brass and low strings. 'The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses' is bloody, muddy, loud and grand 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Directed by Charles McDougall with perhaps a surfeit of darkness and drear, it's a satisfying adaptation that grows more powerful as it grows more dreadful. In 'The Secret Agent,' a tale of political intrigue doesn't lose sight of its human drama 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Premiering Monday on A&E, it was created by Glen Mazzara, a veteran of "The Walking Dead" and "The Shield," and is just as drear and dreadful as that history would suggest. A&E's 'Damien' is more dreadful than demonic 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Everything is drear and damp, as if the landscape itself were suffering from some dreadful malaise. Sundance re-animates its spooky yet low-key and very French 'Returned' 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Reviews were mixed, sometimes even hostile: "Here, the drear never lifts, and he never stops wallowing," wrote Rolling Stone in its initial review. Kanye West's game-changing '808s & Heartbreak' still resounds 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Drizzle and drear will be your commuting companions today. New York Today: Sloppy Commute 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Hope’s mother brought up seven boys in drear, impoverished conditions. When Bob Hope Was Funny 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Segel and Diaz put in fine performances in their respective roles and do their level best to have some fun with the material, but even at their zaniest they can't elevate the drear. 'Sex Tape' review 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z It did not look at first as it does now, for there was no live thing on it, no men, beasts, or birds, not a bush, tree or plant, but all was dark and drear. Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood 2012-04-13T02:00:19.530Z There is a dungeon, in whose dim drear light What do I gaze on? Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z “But for the last, to Pluto’s drear abode Through the dark jaws of Tænarus he went, To drag the triple-headed dog to light.” Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Rugged and wild, wind-swept, and bleak, and drear, She has a ruined splendor all her own, It seizes even while you ask in fear The reason man should choose this waste for home. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z My chaamer in this silent hour, Were dark an’ drear, were dark an’ drear; But brighter far than Cynthia’s beam, Now thou art here, now thou art here. Random Rhymes and Rambles 2012-03-21T02:00:31.003Z The tragedy of his life was not drear to him. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z Each day now was but a sad counterpart of the yesterday that had been, no bright looking forward, no trembling certainty of happiness; all seemed drear, and the future a blank to her troubled mind. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z Amid the jungles of the East, Where gloomiest forms of sin are rife, Like flowerets in a desert drear, Her treasured ones had sprung to life. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z They were surprised when they saw a boy alone on a drear island, and the child was frightened at their presence. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z How sad and drear do the most beautiful natural surroundings become when they are reflected by a sad and lonely heart? Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z A drear, single man’s room it was, from wall to wall, despite its fretted ceilings and official pomp of Bramah escritoires and red boxes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z The long wars of religion, midway in which the Massacre of Bartholomew stands up, like some drear gibbet landmark in a waste, were, indeed, virtually over. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.” Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z A little flag-staff, planted by Dr. Hayes during the Kane expedition, was found bravely looking out upon the drear field it was set to designate, but the flag it bore had been blown away. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z The dun hideousness which by its drear monotony made the eyes ache was masked by blossom and verdure. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z It seemed to her that she must have passed in sleep through the gates of Death, and have been born again into a new dark world--desolate and drear--which was all evil. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Slave of the mine, thy yellow light Gleams baleful as the tomb-fire drear. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z A shade, a wretched nothing,—sad, thin, drear, ······ Sad school Was Hades! Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Thou feel'st no more grief's palpitating start, Nor the drear night hangs heavy on thy heart. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z Since she went home— The evening shadows linger longer here, The winter days fill so much of the year, And even summer winds are chill and drear, Since she went home. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z It is the Spring: 341 Whatever ghost threatens us with the drear Beatings of wild December, Spring is here. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z But we find there are mornings quite foggy and drear, With the clouds in a low-hanging pall; Till the grey light of daylight can hardly make clear That the sun has arisen at all. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z Then all around were weeping for grief and doleful drear, Since none th' approaching mischief had hope to turn aside. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z The sun is old and weary—weary here Upon the ageing roofs and miradors, The broken terraces and basins drear Where each old bell its ancient echoes pours. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z “A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.” Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Hullo! who calls? who drags me forth from earth's drear centre dark? The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z “An old Scotch air,” he had said, “may help to ’liven us up when things look black and drear.” Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Naught saw he there on all sides but woe and doleful drear. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Our solemn tolling for the dead Falls on the mourner’s ear, Then the bereav’d and aching heart Feels desolate and drear. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z But Wortheton without her would be a drear hole, he decided; and Wortheton and the factory were his ultimate and inevitable lot. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z Better, be sure, His altar-flame Should glow in one dim wavering spark, Than quite lie down, and leave His Temple drear and dark. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z So tragically drear and solitary would have been the pilgrimage, save for the spiritual converse of that mystical comrade. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Alas! having lived day by day with one of the wisest, best, and most affectionate of spirits, how void, bare, and drear is the scene of life! The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z But it is in the drear, leaden days of winter, when the moors are covered with snow, that we see what Haworth really is. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z Tell how his boyhood was one drear night-hour, How shone for him, through its griefs and gloom, No star of all heaven sends to light our Path to the tomb. A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z Two together, Babe and Year, Over night and day, Crossed the desert Winter drear To the land of May. Child Verse Poems Grave & Gay 2011-10-22T02:00:29.267Z A drear home for a bride is the wilderness wide, Her heart to old memories turning, And lonely and sad and o'er burdened with care, For kindred and sympathy yearning. Pioneer Day Exercises 2011-10-19T02:00:21.770Z A single ray Of sunlight strikes through cloud, and clears The whole drear countryside of grey; So may one word dispel a cloud of tears. The Deluge and Other Poems 2011-10-15T02:00:29.350Z Of all the drear and desolate spots upon that wild Yorkshire moorland there was none now so dreary and so desolate as the house which had once been the home of Charlotte Brontë. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z By slow degrees, from year to year, From week to week, from night to night, He will be taught how dark and drear Is barter'd love,—how sad to sight A perjured face! Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z As he spoke he stepped into the River, which looked to me so dark and drear. Left to Ourselves or, John Headley's Promise. 2011-10-05T02:00:17.183Z This zodiac of the creatures' cruelty Curls round us, like a river cold and drear, And shuts us in, constraining us to hear. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z "But now I only hear Its melancholy, long withdrawing roar, Retreating to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world." Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z “So sad, so drear; it seems almost Some haunting Presence makes its sign, That down some shadowy lane some ghost Might drive his spectral kine.” Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Few are the sorrows so hopelessly drear But they have sad representatives here; Never a crime so complete and confessed But has come hither for one night of rest. City Ballads 2011-08-04T02:00:21.027Z But still, as wilder blew the wind, And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode arm�d men; Their trampling sounded nearer. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z Where before only the black shadows of a drear depression had been, at once life became flooded with a golden light. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z At least behold me and my mourning drear. The Book of the Duke of True Lovers 2011-07-18T02:00:24.030Z While in silence drear All creation wept The fall of their king. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z God meant that love should warm the human heart when material things without were cold and drear. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Look East, where in a garret drear, The Author works, without cessation, Composing verses for a mere- Ly nominal remuneration; And, while he has the strength to write 'em, Will do so still—ad infinitum! Verse and Worse 2011-07-12T02:00:34.607Z Esm�e followed him into the drear little kitchen, where a single candle on the table was guttering in the draft. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z Now do I look on life as the worn mariner, Stretching his eyes o'er seas immeasurable, And all is drear and comfortless. The Surrender of Calais A Play, in Three Acts 2011-07-05T02:00:33.083Z Motionless they hung—some touching each other, some apart, looking ghastly enough in the drear silence of the forest. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z The lonely ride looked ghostly and drear in the early dusk of the November afternoon. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z There was much movement at the diggings: every one was busy on top, and the change from the drear monotony of the terrible winter was giving place to cheery looks and hopeful faces. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z Only a demigod could thrive 'Mid such surroundings drear; Only a hero could survive In such an atmosphere! The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z For his drear exile, with his virtue linked, glad would I change the fairest state on earth.' Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z But their low voices are not heard, though come on travels drear; Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z All without looked drear, jaded, almost lifeless; the cold was penetrating. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z And you, even you, will be like this drear thing, A vile infection man may not endure; Star that I yearn to! The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z We must reduce ourselves to the requirements of the five-cent-cigar man, and turn a happy, smiling world into a dark and drear struggle for existence. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Thou February cold and wet, And snowy March and drear, Soft April heralds its approach, And soon it will be here. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The moon hath veiled herself, the silence drear Knocks on my heart, unhidden enters in, Where once love and sweet innocence, in peace Dwelt, all unscarred by a despoiler's hand. Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems 2011-05-26T02:00:17.117Z Indeed, there was something particularly grim about this young maiden—a drear stolidity that defies describing. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z My queen, my slave, whose love is fear, When you awaken shuddering, Until that awful hour be here, You cannot say at midnight drear: "I am your equal, O my King!" The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z The sea is thy mirror, thou regardest thy soul In its mighteous waves that unendingly roll, And thy spirit is yet not a chasm less drear. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z In a great city hospital There lay poor Mary Crosby small, She had no friends her heart to cheer, So time with her passed sad and drear. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z Shade this drear form with arms of love! Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems 2011-05-26T02:00:17.117Z But in the vast distance before them there seemed to loom an unending stretch of moorland, vast and drear and dark. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z How drear and sordidly selfish, poor and unprofitable existence seems to him then. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z For hinging upon that is the hopelessness, almost a dead, drear certainty, she will never have deliverance! Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z A young woman stood silently by, watching his labors with the voiceless interest of those who live the drear life of silent places. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z The loving glances she bestowed, The tender tales she told— The world, since she has gone away, Seems empty, drear and cold. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z Daubrel had not a single woman friend such as women love to tell their petty sorrows to, and that her life seemed to her very dull and drear. Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) 2011-04-01T02:00:37.710Z Was it this, or was there a still deeper sorrow—the anguish of a hopeless passion—the drear heart-longing for a love he might never obtain? Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The morning broke, drear and clouded, and full of rain, and hardly less gloomy than the night. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Another, who seemed to have lost his reason in the sufferings of a long and drear captivity, was the Count of Solange, imprisoned by lettre de cachet during the reign of Louis XV. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Too soon you went—we miss the cheer, The kindliness vouchsafed to all; The world seems strangely lone and drear When one whom many hearts hold dear Fares heavenward ere the shadows fall. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z When these had reported that no living thing moved in all that drear place, we followed Petrovka again and began to think of supper. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, lie strewn around me here; Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, how sad, how cold, how drear! The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z For it was November, and the days were drear. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z To live in joys that once have been, To put the cold world out of sight, And deck life’s drear and barren scene With hues of rainbow-light. Three Sunsets and Other Poems 2011-03-08T03:00:46.420Z C. Go: from that chamber drear Forth to the day Lead her, and say, Oh, say That we love her dear. Medea of Euripedes 2011-03-03T03:00:47.283Z In silence, all crouching together, we drive through the city, out through the northern gateway; soon we are galloping along the drear flat country-road that leads to the greatest tragedy of the War. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, lie strewn around me here; Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, how sad, how cold, how drear! The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z You sit and look at that great drear building and brood overmuch. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z False proved the lady, and thenceforth the knight, Casting aside the buckler and the brand, Lived, an austere and lonely anchorite, In a drear mountain-cave in Holy Land. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Rose-tinted rays quivered in the chill, pure morning air, and the surface of the water, a minute ago so dark and drear, gained a deep, wonderful blue. Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:37.767Z Then the ice lord crept from drear confines of the Arctic, with the great chains in his white hand. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, how sad, how cold, how drear! The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z The darkness seems less drear, the feeling of separation more remote, though still Pride sits with triumphant mien between them, with his great wings outspread to conceal effectually any penitent glance or thought. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z For hingeing upon that is the hopelessness, almost a dead, drear certainty, she will never have deliverance! Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z The minister turned aside his face to look out of the window, pretending to see something very attractive in the drear winter landscape, and so the babel went on. Ben Pepper 2011-02-07T03:00:21.607Z His life had become a drear, monotonous triviality. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z And when there is none, all is dark and drear. The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z It may have been my mood, that night, but it seemed a drear and lonely land; the bigness of the North, its power, the implacable, elemental forces, had never taken definite form before. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z If the way be drear, If the foe be near, Let not faithless fears o’ertake us, Let not faith and hope forsake us; For through many a foe To our home we go. Morning and Evening Prayers for All Days of the Week Together With Confessional, Communion, and Other Prayers and Hymns for Mornings and Evenings, and Other Occasions 2011-01-19T03:00:21.137Z The way is long, the night is drear, I stumble on through doubt and fear; My heart grows numb, all hope takes flight; Oh, Father, let me see the light! In the Land of Dakota A Little Book of Dakota Verse 2011-01-18T03:00:12.493Z My girlie," there was a little tremble in his voice, "the sky looked so clear and bright as we came to the farm, and it looks all drear and black now I am leaving it. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z There comes a new moon twelve times a year; And when there is none, all is dark and drear. The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z The clouds in sight Like streaks of blood across the sky, While gazing on the distance drear, Hark! what footsteps greet her ear? Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z It was not the Tibet of his imagination, the Tibet of drear, waterless stretches shut in by bastioned mountains, unscalable, snow-helmeted guards. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Look East, where in a garret drear, The Author works, without cessation, Composing verses for a mere- ly nominal remuneration; And, while he has the strength to write 'em, Will do so still—ad infinitum. Perverted Proverbs A Manual of Immorals for the Many 2011-01-01T03:00:23.337Z The wind piped loud and drear, whilst all paused and listened, and presently a deep groan, which appeared to come into the very room from beneath the door, still further startled the party. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z There comes a new moon twelve times a year; And when there is none, all is dark and drear. The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens 2011-03-11T03:00:15.587Z Have loved ones gone, does earth look drear? Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z He went into a dense, drear forest, and there he saw a dove sitting on a tree. Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z They call thee 'King of Terrors!' drear dismay Followeth thy footsteps, and around thy brow Hovers a thick impenetrable cloud, Which, to some hearts, is Hope's sad funeral shroud. Heathen Mythology No shrub, no tree, not a blade of grass was to be seen on this drear mountain land. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z In a short time, debility rendered him completely bed-ridden, and the tyrant of the human race betokened his approach "by many a drear foreboding sign." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 There’s much at best t’ embitter life, to make it sad and drear. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z Beneath us now is a forest dark and drear, muddy and boggy; if we lighted down there, thou and I would never get out again so long as the world lasts.” Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z Why must Grendel or his mother represent the tempest, or the malaria, or the drear long winter nights? Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn If the way be drear, If the foe be near, Let not faithless fear o’ertake us, Let not faith and hope forsake us; For through many a foe To our home we go! The Story of Our Hymns The country became rougher, more desolate, and the few farms looked drear and beaten down by the buffeting of the elements. Jane Stewardess of the Air Lines The boisterous waves roll rough around My thin and slender bark; While clouds arise, and storms resound, And all is drear and dark. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z He placed her on the cart and drove her into the drear forest—far into the forest he drove her—drew his knife from his girdle, and began to sharpen it. Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z The few trees that grew around the farmstead looked drear and forbidding; away in the distance the hills seemed to smoke. The Man Who Rose Again O weary heart, though cold and drear The days along thy pathway seem, To Nature's breast bend low thine ear And listen to its pulsing stream. In a Belgian Garden and Other Poems My life's a mirror; with you near 'Tis filled with joy the live-long day, But oh, how meaningless and drear With you away! Acanthus and Wild Grape We are left to sin, to punish sin, No consolation here; Reflection only swells the tide Of anguish sad and drear. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z There was not the drear, melancholy darkness and then the swift coming of light. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines The ogress sang as follows: Thou shalt not be suffered to pass through my courts With their pillars of stone in my mansion drear,— Better far wert thou busied at home with thy needle! Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes Now, in prisons drear we languish, And it is our constant cry, O ye who yet can save us, Will you leave us here to die? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 The bright, sweet-scented flowers that star the road To death’s dim dwelling, others heed them not, With sad eyes fixed upon that drear abode, Weeping, and wailing their unhappy lot. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work But when clouds and storms shall gather Round thy pathway rough and drear, Few will cling as fond as ever, Few will prove to thee sincere. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z When from the mould again, Spurning disaster, Spring shoots unfold again, Follow thou faster Out of the drear domain Of dark, defeat, and pain, Praising the Master. Later Poems Nor to the gods of ocean e'er For her was offered vow or prayer, Though from yon farthest ocean drear She came to this calm crystal mere. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII If you would learn how best to fight Your way through regions queer, Thread forest mazes dark as night, And deserts dim and drear! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 X. And then the drear sharp tongue of prophecy, With the dread sense of things which shall be done, Doth smite me inly, like a sword: a sword? The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II The dark day is growing colder and more drear. Faith and Unfaith I saw the huge unhuman sea; I heard the drear monotony Of the waves beating on the shore With heedless, futile strife and roar, Without a meaning or an aim. Later Poems Black indeed was the hour when a glow-worm belated on this drear night of the year's decline could so alarm him. Plashers Mead A Novel Indeed, this man whom I had destroyed had a drear revenge upon me. Bye-Ways The drear and dismal aspect of the place and its gruesome legend impressed him. Haviland's Chum All is sad, and drear, and almost tragic! Faith and Unfaith Heavens! what appalling shade of darkness was this, haunting the drear, horrible, inky surface of that slimy sea? A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance The horned moon rose higher over the drear sea of peaks. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Six thousand years in strife have rolled away, Since Erin sprang from billowy surf and spray; In that drear lapse, her sons have never known One ray of peace to gild her crimson zone. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. Anything more drear and depressing than the brooding gloom of the haunted wood could hardly be imagined. Haviland's Chum He warred wi' the Cannibals drear, In forests where panthers pad soft to and fro, And the Pongo shakes noonday with fear, Yeo ho! The Three Mulla-mulgars And now with a thrill of unspeakable exaltation, he realised that he was going downhill, that he was actually outside that hated and ill-omened hollow which had been their drear prison-house all these weary weeks. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley Heavens! my brain seemed to be turning to mud with the drear despair of each fresh discovery. A Frontier Mystery The earth, in all her summer pride array'd, To this might seem a drear sepulchral shade. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Yet, however drear their life, it was a surcease from the apoplexy of the epoch. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The second voice replies— "How lonesome the grave; how deserted and drear," &c. &c. Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. But still as wilder blew the wind, And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode arméd men, Their trampling sounded nearer. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes Even then—in that tense moment, the drear anguish of yesterday surged like a wave through my mind; but, upon it a gleam of hope. A Frontier Mystery These cellars piled With filth of many a year— These rooms with rotting damps defiled— These alleys where the sun ne'er smiled, Darkling and drear! Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) No whooping-cough did rack his frame, Nor measles drear with spots; Not these impaired the sacred name Of Stephen Dowling Bots. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade See on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore! English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History O'Driscoll drove with a song, The wild duck and the drake, From the tall and the tufted reeds Of the drear Hart Lake. The Wind Among the Reeds How drear it is Always to be alone! Fugitive Poetry The nights were ribald and the days were drear, for fever stalked the streets, but Inocencio was immune, and for the first time he enjoyed himself. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Thrice blessed is he who, when all is drear and cheerless within and without, when his teachers terrify him and his friends shrink from him, has obstinately clung to moral good. Modern Substitutes for Christianity The sky was drear with the ash gray of autumn. The Portal of Dreams The tomb has gloom, but Oh, the doom Of the drear sea-ghost! Song-Surf The tomb has gloom, but oh, the doom Of the drear sea-ghost! Sea Poems I know not the day; but the month it is the drear October by the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) It was the first thing he told me, on his arrival, as we walked up and down the gardens of the Luxembourg on a drear November afternoon. Francezka He and they had confidences and a drear interchange of memories and a knowledge of a past that broke the heart already of the future. The Story of Old Fort Loudon Then darkness rose Within me, and drear bitterness. Song-Surf Or in the shape of insect, flower, Or bird has helped to cheer, In later times, full many an hour Of bondage, sad and drear. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind Be it enough for us to know that Keats, in the drear prospect of expatriation and death, wrote in this strain, and to wish it were otherwise. Life of John Keats One drear, cloudy October evening, Anselmus, who was understood to be somewhere a long way off--came in at the door of a friend of his. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Oaklands had never before seemed desolate and drear; and she could not have believed, had she been told, that she could ever look with ungracious eyes upon the stately home of her childhood. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge The star, the breeze, the wave, the trees, Their minstrelsy unite, But all are drear, till thou appear To decorate the night. Cupid's Middleman He motioned me to stand a little nearer, and suddenly the drear silence of the room was broken by the low, monotonous chant of prayers. A Monk of Cruta November The leaves are sere, The woods are drear, The breeze that erst so merrily did play, Naught giveth save a melancholy lay; Yet life's great lessons do not fail E'en in November's gale. The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children It was a drear, gray, miserable day, with sleet pattering against the carriage windows. An Isle in the Water Without movement anywhere, save for the heat-waves ascending, this expanse presented an unutterably drear and lonesome aspect. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance When through vales and on the mountains Roars the storm at midnight drear, Clambering over ridge and chimney Hiddigeigei doth appear. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. Verily within those drear Strata of the world of brutes, In those lower social layers There is misery, pride and wrath. Atta Troll Dear one, mine own! art gone From young life's happy places, To the dark grave and lone— Death's cold and drear embraces! The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 Thus pillowed on your faithful breast, Nor life nor death is wholly drear, O tender heart, since you are here, So dear, so dear! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 He is said to have chosen this drear abode as a refuge from the eternal wars between the Picts and the Scots toward the close of the seventh century. Legends & Romances of Brittany She no longer wore coat and hat, and the absence of the latter revealed a glory of golden hair that became instantly a rival to the sunshine in that drear bare room. Seven Keys to Baldpate While Lascaro dumb and dour Followed up the bear-tracks dim, I with musings sought to slay Time, but tired soon I grew Of my musings,—drear, ah, drear! Atta Troll At last we left the Desert drear, To sail upon the Nile, In the Pasha's beautiful diabeheh Past many a crocodile. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 She lay there like a bud which tempests drear Nip in its spring time with remorseless tooth; Ah! sure a father's heart will tender be, Nor close its issues 'gainst her utterly. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems I cannot fall back upon that drear, forlorn state, which philosophers call wisdom, and moralists call virtue. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century A fantastic film of frost was on the windows; the inner room was drear and chill. Seven Keys to Baldpate Shall I ever from this drear Vale of tears ascend to joy? Atta Troll And perilous lands thou sawest, sounding shores And seas and forests drear, island and dale And mountain dark. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) "Like the streams that most refresh us In the desert parch'd and drear, Sorrow renders love more precious, Makes the cherish'd one more dear." Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems I wander by that river’s brink Which circles Pluto’s drear domain; I feel the chill night breeze, and think Of joys which ne’er shall be again. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century "No night so dark, no day so drear, But we may sing our songs of cheer." Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 What to thee seemed blue and gold Is, alas, but idle snow, Idle snow which, lone and drear, Bores itself in solitude. Atta Troll Did no one dream of that drear night to be, Wild with the wind, fierce with the stinging snow, When, on yon granite point that frets the sea, The ship met her death-blow? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 They hunt and fish, saving their canned supplies for the winter, for the winter months are long and drear up in this far northern country.” The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska Or, The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass And was he to fall back on his drear solitude, and lose that outlet of thought and relief of mind which he had lately found in the society of his Greek friends? Callista : a Tale of the Third Century In him there stirs, like sap within the tree, The joyous call to new activity: The outward scene, however dull and drear, Takes on a splendor from the inward cheer. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Aye, I mind the place—a drear place, lad, wi' an evil face. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Thus he lay through the diminishing days and lengthening nights of the whole drear month of November. Shirley Around us was the deafening roar, A void, a wild and drear eclipse. Ioläus The man that was a ghost The face seemed to turn to the drear, blank sky—was it in appealing, or a desperate daring? an impotent resistance, or a wild, agonizing prayer? Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart And when at length the drear and long Time soothed thy fiercer woes, How plaintively thy mournful song Upon the still night rose! The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President Monica's wounded inward self cried out for silence The world was drear. Futurist Stories Amidst a group she recognized her spinster friend, Miss Mann, whom the fine weather had tempted, or some urgent friend had persuaded, to leave her drear solitude for one hour of social enjoyment. Shirley But no one in those drear days was mad enough to see the outcome. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Now through the garden trees the sun 'gan break, And that inevitable time drew near; Then through the courts, grown cruel, strange, and drear, Since the bright morn, they led her to the gate. The Earthly Paradise A Poem It was a dull, drear morning, everywhere a dull gray, the wide waters about us silent and deserted. Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West Awake, my dear, The winter drear Has fled with all things dreary, But quickly by The spring will fly, And soon the birds will weary.— Very Short Stories and Verses For Children In the drear monument, should hostile steps Dare to approach him, they must enter singly; This guards the passage; man by man they die. The Grecian Daughter Though the night be drear and long, To the darkest sorrow there comes a morrow, A right to every wrong. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 The cuckoo from the distance cries, The lark a pilgrim in the skies; But all the pleasant spring is drear. The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems It was five days later, and in the heart of all that was desolate and drear, when this long sought opportunity came in most unexpected fashion. Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West Life’s one long drear, and––and I sometimes wish it were all over and done with.” The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country This sullen musing in these drear abodes Alarms suspicion: the king knows thy plottings, Thy rooted hatred to the state and him. The Grecian Daughter Around the edges of the lowered shades, a gray, drear light gave warning of coming day. At the Crossroads One woke and shivered at the morning grey; “The trees, I never heard them sigh so drear.” The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems Yet, dark and drear as the day was, we had no true warning of the approaching storm, for the vapor clinging to the water concealed from our sight the clouds above. Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West It was as though we had steamed out of a human land into the drear valleys of the moon, and one expected to catch glimpses of creatures as terrifying as any Mr. Wells has imagined. Westward with the Prince of Wales The day, the day, I cannot 'bide, 'Tis dull and dusty and drear— And, owl-like, away from the sun I hide, That in dreams I may wander freer. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 But beyond that exalted moment stretched the plain, drear days. At the Crossroads From year to year In the wide and stately garden drear The snows and the snowy blossoms melt Unheeded, and a ghastly fear Through all the shivering leaves is felt. Poems Yet the very thought that the young Sieur was there, accompanying us into the drear wilderness, preserved me from utter despair. Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West There was not even a half-breed camp, with its picturesque squalor, to break up the deadly drear of the surrounding plains. The Law-Breakers Oh, my heart Seems a cavern deep and drear, From whose dark recesses start, Flatteringly like birds of night, Throes of passion, thoughts of fear, Screaming in their flight. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy And now, in thy ripe autumn, once again Given back to fervent prayers and yearnings strong, From the drear realm of sickness and of pain When we had watched, and feared, and trembled long. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition “You do not care!” she repeated, in a voice that was the faintest, most drear echo of my own. The Cruise of the Shining Light Waking the echoes wanders he Beneath his feudal arches drear, His ringing footsteps seemingly Followed by other footsteps clear. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems The pass of Arlberg is even still so bleak and bitter that few care to climb there: the mountains around are drear and barren, and snow lies till midsummer, and even longer sometimes. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Toward the reef of Norman’s Woe. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales But of Addington he did think, in the years that were so much drear space for reflection, and though he felt no desire to go back, the memory of it was cool and still. The Prisoner What had in the morning of that day been a prospect of joy was vanished in a drear mist of broken hopes. The Cruise of the Shining Light In drizzle and in daylight drear, From out their dark abodes let free, Dim, spectral shadow-shapes appear. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems I looked up; all seemed as before; Of that cloud-Tophet overhead No trace was left: I saw instead The common round me, and the sky Above, stretched drear and emptily Of life. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning In winter, when it freezes, In winter, when it snows, The road to school seems long and drear, O’er which the school-boy goes. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad And ere the dawn of day appeared In Cumnor Hall, so lone and drear, Full many a piercing scream was heard, And many a cry of mortal fear. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 Enough, as it turned out; but ’twas all an unhappy mystery to me on that drear, clammy day. The Cruise of the Shining Light Nor sigh for towns so fine, to change This forest drear. The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage Needs must it be, while understood For man's preparatory state; Nought here to heighten nor abate; Transfer the same completeness here, To serve a new state's use,—and drear Deficiency gapes every side! Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning His livid eyes in drear convulsions roll, While from his wounds escapes the flutt'ring soul, Breathless and naked on th' ensanguin'd plain, Midst friends and brothers, sons and fathers slain. The Battle of Bunkers-Hill Parent! who with speechless feeling, O'er thy cradled treasure bent, Found each year new charms revealing, Yet thy wealth of love unspent; Hast thou seen that blossom blighted By a drear, untimely frost? Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 Awake, Æolian lyre, awake: and the Descent of Odin: Uprose the king of men with speed, And saddled strait his coal-black steed: Down the yawning steep he rode, That leads to Hela's drear abode. Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 It was in this drear, lonely place that the tramp had taken up his abode. Treasure Valley They spared to him the sore-bought Deer; And in that lowly cell For many weary days and drear The King came there to dwell. The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts Here, quaffing mead from out the shell Sit ye, my Courtmen bold, Whilst I go to the mountain drear, Speech with the Dead to hold! Young Swaigder, or The Force of Runes and Other Ballads Backward she saw, from out her drear eclipse, The mighty Theban years, And the deep anguish of her mournful lips Interpreted her tears. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 The birds shrieked on their wing; When rose a wind so drear, Its troubled spirit seemed to bring The shades of darkness near. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden While the Autumn days are here Make things snug for Winter drear; Storehouse filled with everything To last until again it's Spring. Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures I let fall so many a big briny tear, God’s mercy upon me! my fate has been drear. The Tale of Brynild, and King Valdemar and his Sister Two Ballads “Here, quaffing mead and ruddy wine, Sit ye my men so brave, Whilst I go to the mountain drear, With my mother speech to have!” Young Swaigder, or The Force of Runes and Other Ballads His mission o'er, with thoughtful look, The boy sought out a shaded nook, Apart from all—yet near The opening where the men had laid Their rations on the mossy glade, Beside the swamp-marsh drear. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 Each time the caitiff slays a deer, He wakes me in my grave so drear. Signelil a Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads It was so hot and drear for her! A Son of the Middle Border The birds freely sing In autumn's drear weather As blithe as in spring; They chorus their music In joy's happy tune, And singing and singing Their songs vanish soon. Oklahoma Sunshine Ah, friend, no longer wait To scatter loving smiles and words of cheer To those around whose lives are now so drear; They may not need you in the coming year— Now is the time! Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul He had heard of the great white wolves that inhabit the drear lone lands that lie beyond the arctic coast—larger even than the grey caribou wolves of the barren lands. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country It was a drear season even in midsummer, a land of naked ledges and cold white peaks. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse There was a transient relief at coming into the neighbourhood of a house, and a drear feeling of desolation and increased danger as she left it behind her; but her pace neither faltered nor flagged. Say and Seal, Volume I It's all too lonely for speech, Too drear for a swift remark; I only grope till I faintly reach Your finger-tips in the dark. Oklahoma Sunshine If you have a word of cheer That may light the pathway drear, Of a brother pilgrim here, Let him know. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul If it be said—why "draw his frailties from their drear abode?" the answer is obvious, and, I should hope, irrefragable. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance The endless sky and lonely mesa, Flat and drear, Calls me, calls me as the flute of Utah Calls his mate— This wild, sad, sunny, brazen country, Hot as hate. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Her house, her heart, were dark and drear, Without their wonted light; The little star had left its sphere, That there had shone so bright. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Earth’s but a desert drear, Heaven is my home. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands If the way be drear, If the foe be near, Let not faithless fears o'ertake us, Let not faith and hope forsake us; For, through many a foe To our home we go. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul O Thou Who makest guilt to disappear, My help, my hope, my rock, I will not fear; Though Thou the body hold in dungeon drear, The soul has found the palace of the King. Hebrew Literature But this shock passed next, and once more there was a solemn silence, a drear stillness. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Oh, what a drear, dark close to my poor day! Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Yes, life then seem'd one pure delight, Tho' now each spot looks drear; Yet tho' thy smile be lost to sight, To mem'ry thou art dear. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature For who will notice that clouds are drear If pleasant faces are always near, And who will remember that skies are gray If he carries a happy heart all day? Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul Behold the Bridegroom cometh At the hour of midnight drear, And blest be he who watcheth When his Master shall appear, But woe betide the careless one Asleep when He is near! Hymns of the Greek Church Translated with Introduction and Notes But with convictions like mine, to do so would have brought the drear sense of derogation. Apologia Diffidentis My chamber in this silent hour, Were dark an’ drear, were dark an’ drear But brighter far than Cynthia’s beam, Now thou art here, now thou art here. Revised Edition of Poems Yes, life then seem'd one pure delight, Tho' now each spot looks drear; Yet tho' thy smile be lost to sight, To mem'ry thou art dear. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature But still strong-hearted be, Yea, though the night be drear; How sad and long soe'er Its gloom may be, This darkness, too, shall flee. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul In the bliss of old predicted, Heaven and earth to-day rejoice; Men and angels, one in spirit, Shout aloud in gleeful voice; For, to those in darkness drear, God in human flesh is near. Hymns of the Greek Church Translated with Introduction and Notes Clouds are roll'd Where thou, O seer! art set; Thy realm of thought is drear and cold— The world is colder yet! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold This was when the leaves were falling from the trees in the park—a drear, dark night: the wind sweeping the streets in violent gusts, the rain lashing the windowpanes. The Mother And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow, Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept T'wards the reef of Norman's Woe. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets Befall thee shall a fate so drear— To honied words we list so fain. The Return of the Dead and Other Ballads Great as thou art, and paralleled by none, Admired by all, still art thou drear and lone! Poems Tristram Chill blows the wind, the pleasaunce-walks are drear— Madcap, what jest was this, to meet me here? Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Up came ringing a cry—a death-yell, so it would seem, so fierce it was, and wild and drear. Burl “And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased; And the epitaph drear, a fool lies here Who tried to hustle the East.” India's Problem, Krishna or Christ The moated bower is wild and drear, And sad the dark yew’s shade; The flowers which bloom in silence here, In silence also fade. Spare Hours Why else at dead of night, with shrouded sight, was I conducted to this drear abyss, through ways apparently unknown to man? The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 The world to them was stern and drear Their lot was but to weep and moan. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Within the burnished banquet room there sings The fountain of the harem pure and clear, Just as of old it sang in twilights drear. Sonnets from the Crimea All round, the hills were dark and drear; and that very fertility, that fat Kentish luxuriance, added to the oppression. The Hero Most young people, I conjecture, pass through a similar mental experience, when the drear fact of death is first realized. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine His note hath a chime all cannot hear, And none can love him better than I; For he sings to me when the land is drear, And makes it cheerful even to die. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 And he came down to Ocean's northern strand, At the drear ice, beyond the giants' home. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold The owl and vulture of dark wing and drear Are fluttering like black banners overhead In cities where the pest piles high the dead. Sonnets from the Crimea “Now, Damsel fair, I’ve rescued thee From thraldom drear and secret care; Now tell me of thy ancestry, Thy parents and thy race declare.” p. The Nightingale, the Valkyrie and Raven and other ballads The storm howled round them wild and drear. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine Then about he spied and about he pried, Amid the bushes so dark and drear, Till sight he got of a little cot Where fire and light were burning clear. Marsk Stig a ballad She follows the gay world, whose swarms have fled To Switzerland, to Baden, to the Rhine; Why stops she by this empty play-house drear? Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Each Saturday night, when slept the rest, Away I stroll’d To the forest, so murky and drear, in quest Of buried gold. The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads I backward cast my ee On prospects drear! One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed Oh spirit of darkness! oh spirit so drear! Werwolves As long as stay’d with him the maid Both light and fire his sight did cheer, But as soon, as soon as she was gone With Ranild he stood in the bush so drear. Marsk Stig a ballad Enough for us that those drear realms were trod By heavenly footsteps, that the Son of God Passed the dark bourne and vanquished Death, to save The weary wanderers of life's stormy wave. Enthusiasm and Other Poems Dawn broke grey and drear, and the troops were in the depths of depression. The Tale of a Trooper No, thank heaven for that, Madeline, else your way would have been far more drear, else your life might have known never a ray of sunlight, in the long days to come. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Here, wan and drear, magic spell making, Findest thou me—shaking, quaking. Werwolves The day seemed long and drear and weary; but she had seen him watching her, and he was coming at last. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad It was hard to leave an old and broken man in such a drear and wind-contested spot, and yet it had to be done. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Before them stood a grove of cedars, old, gray, and drear, as weirdly impressive as the cacti in a Mexican desert. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range The drear sadness of autumn, the deadness of winter, the chill uncertainty of spring—all these were over and gone. The Mistress of Shenstone It was late in November, and the day was dark and drear. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time And the night came on as black as pitch and very drear. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Always drear and gaunt it was immeasurably so on this occasion. Royal Palaces and Parks of France Enough of thought, philosopher, Too long hast thou been dreaming Unlightened, in this chamber drear, While summer's sun is beaming! Emily Brontë The empty cabin looked strangely quiet and drear, and the door of the state-room stood ajar. More Cargoes 1897 For all the grassy meadows near Are clad with snow, my child; Through all the days of winter drear No ray of sun has smiled. Christmas Roses I know a garret, cold and dark and drear, And one who toils and toils with tireless pen, Until his brave, sad eyes grow weary—then He seeks the stars, pale, silent as a seer. Songs of a Sourdough He thought the world was coming to an end, and the window came down on his back, and he began to sing, "Earth's but a desert drear, Heaven is my home." Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 Despair not, though thy course is drear, The past has pleasures for us all; Bright scenes and things to hearts most dear, And those how fondly we recall. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 There is no railway station within ten miles of that drear region, and it seemed a fitting meeting-place for the couple who came there that day. The Day of Judgment I plucked this bunch of verses, dear, From out my garden wild, I plucked them in the winter drear For you, my fairest child, Your wet and wintry hours to cheer, They’re Christmas Roses, child. Christmas Roses The heat of the previous ten days had stripped them bare of snow, and the landscape was drear and monotonous. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland O'er such a drear unpeopled waste, oh! who would be a king? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 It was freezing water, too, for this was no longer the warm spring time, as it had been in the march to Kaskaskia, but dull and drear February. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Only we shall all be back at Westminster again in drear November. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914 THE tiny crocus is so bold It peeps its head above the mould, Before the flowers awaken, To say that spring is coming, dear, With sunshine and that winter drear Will soon be overtaken. Christmas Roses She remembered distinctly, or rather, she saw clearly the forlorn creature, who on that drear November day, nearly three years ago, stood looking down on the little town. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not Now his hoary head draws near; Winds are blowing, winds are blowing; All around looks cold and drear. The Nursery, November 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 5 All day the chill bleak wind had shrieked and wailed Through leafless forests, and o'er meadows sear; Through the fierce sky great sable clouds had sailed; Outlines were hard—all nature's looks were drear. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 The "A 1" is, I take it, simply the "Ai!" of the Greek chorus new-vamped for modern wear,—a drear wail well suited to the victims of the Markerstown. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 October drifted into November and the chill, drear days came. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 Now, that my father may not break The words of promise that he spake, To the drear wood my steps are bent: Be firm, good Sítá, and content. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Where hast thou been through all the winter drear? Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics His own love for the girl tore at his heart, the image of his life stretched lonely and drear before him, yet he could not turn aside. The Snowshoe Trail He was voluntarily placing himself in the power of men whom his class had driven from the upper air into these drear abodes. The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome Forth the two From that drear cavern passed. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Hast thou, O beauteous dame, no fear In the wild wood so lone and drear? The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse It was nothing but sand, drear and desolate as far as the eye could reach. The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West From darkened sky gleamed not a star; The way he travelled o'er was drear, Made doubly so by Scotchmen's fear. Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems A gray day: the sea a cold gray—the sky a drear color. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. See how the dusk pines Tremble and crouch; Over wide wastes borne, white are the snow-wreaths blown, And loud the drear icy fjords shudder and moan; Lilith comes! Lilith The Legend of the First Woman My glorious husband far away, Making heroic strength his stay, Dwells with his brother, void of fear, In Daṇḍak forest lone and drear. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse “Winter past, so drear and hoary, Thou again wilt spring and bloom: So I hope to rise in glory From the darkness of the tomb.” The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account "Winter was here, Leafless and drear; And so I flew over the sea, My sweet,— So I flew over the sea." The Nursery, April 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People And I am prepared to admit the folly to-day as I sit at my elderly desk and look out to the London sky, grey and drear as if the spring had gone with my youth. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties This solitude I fear; The land about is chill,” she said, “and drear It seems to me.” Lilith The Legend of the First Woman On! leave the Milky Sea behind: Another flood your search shall find, A waste of waters, wild and drear, That chills each living heart with fear. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse There he sees the heroes by their river, Where the great fish daily upward swim; Yet they are but shadows hunting shadows, Phantom fish in waters drear and dim. Poems: New and Old Must her life be drear and wintry, except as she rambles into the pleasaunce of others? Floyd Grandon's Honor Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism But rest, In chaffing restlessness, is yet more drear Than to be crush'd, in striving to uprear40 Love's standard on the battlements of song. Endymion A Poetic Romance For who would care to linger here, Where all is sad and dark and drear? The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Ye think, I doubt not, of an homeward course, But Circe points me to the drear abode Of Proserpine and Pluto, to consult The spirit of Tiresias, Theban seer. The Odyssey of Homer My secret drear Will sound an insult in your ear. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Say my life's a desert drear and arid, To its one green spot I aye recur: Never, never—although three times married— Have I cared a jot for aught but her. The Book of Humorous Verse Aye, such a breathless honey-feel of bliss Alone preserved me from the drear abyss Of death, for the fair form had gone again. Endymion A Poetic Romance When Ráma, Daśaratha's child, Shall seek these shades then drear and wild, His coming shall remove thy stain, And make the sinner pure again. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse For so the spirit of the Theban seer Inform’d me, on that day, when to enquire Of mine and of my people’s safe return I journey’d down to Pluto’s drear abode. The Odyssey of Homer Strange unto her each childish game, But when the winter season came And dark and drear the evenings were, Terrible tales she loved to hear. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse But still, as wilder rose the wind, And as the night grew drearer; Just back a piece came the police, Their tramping sounded nearer. The Book of Humorous Verse It all seemed dark and drear, and not a gleam of sunshine in sight. Bulbs and Blossoms Nay, with the sacred fire to guide, Will I, Sumitrá by my side, Myself to the drear wood repair And seek the son of Raghu there. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse A fair and jocund day departed, and suddenly a dark cloud mantled the heavens, and the moonless night was falling dismal and drear. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Unknown to all he doth appear, A vision desolate and drear Doth seem to him the festal scene. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse There was the drear emptiness of poverty in my pocket, present anxiety in my heart, and little hope in the outlook. The Dew of Their Youth The trees begin to look barren, the bronzed hue of the surrounding hills admonishing us that October, chill and drear, is upon us. Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive But wild and dark and known to none Is the drear space beyond the sun. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The resolve to do so had been taken during the drear of winter. The Heart of Unaga Or, when anew all Nature teems, Do we foresee in troubled dreams The coming of life's Autumn drear. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse What though the night be drear With gloom and cold, So that there be one voice to hear, One hand to hold? Nights in London "This world is but a desert drear," was the actual fact as long as priests and soldiers were supreme. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen He ceased: Hanúmán mighty-souled The tale of Ráma's wanderings told From that first day on which he stood In the drear shade of Daṇḍak wood. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse A vision drear did then appear unto that sexton's eyes; Like that poor wight before him straight he in a coffin lies. Rookwood With slow, despairing oar, the abandoned skiff Ploughs its drear progress to the scarce seen cliff, Which lifts its peak a cloud above the main: That boat and ship shall never meet again! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry “Then it wasn’t a dream, and it was only that the place looked so dismal drear in the dusk.” Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy "The Castle's bound I wander round, Among the grassy graves, But all I hear Is the north wind drear, And all I see—the waves." Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Hope, anger must be cast aside, To penance every thought applied: No fear must be of things to fear: Hence is the wood for ever drear. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse “I hae nae doubt the Lord will go with him; but it will be a drear day for plenty besides me.” Janet's Love and Service The earth offers no aspect more drear and desolate than that of a burnt prairie. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse It is the only tree in sight; elsewhere not even a bush to break the drear monotony of the desert. The Death Shot A Story Retold Overhead The skies were drear and dim; And lo! the thought of him Smiled on my heart—and then The sun shone out again! Riley Songs of Friendship This lonely wood beneath the hill, That was so dark and drear and still, Covered with men in endless streams Now like Ayodhyá's city seems. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The Moated Grange, now ruinous and drear, He roamed, constrained to bitter self-effacement, Until one midnight his enraptured ear Detected mortal accents in the basement. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 Together: Birthdays of patriots, brave and true, In February drear, make cheer for you. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State While thus pleasantly pass the days with Colonel Armstrong’s younger daughter, to the elder they are drear and dark. The Death Shot A Story Retold What had occurred to change the summer sunlight to drearest gray? Janet of the Dunes King Janak, with his queen, will hear Heart rent like me the tidings drear Of Ráma banished by the king, Urged by her impious counselling. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The castle's bound I wander round Amidst the grassy graves:15 But all I hear Is the north-wind drear, And all I see are the waves. The Ontario High School Reader Like cliffs abutting in shadow a drear grey sea Some street-ends thrust forward their stack. Bay A Book of Poems The baron, stern and sad, Was in his tower alone, Pacing, with mailed heel, Upon the echoing stone: Cried he—'What stranger seeks, This hour, my castle drear? Brittany & Its Byways Since you have drunken up the drear Painful electric storm, and death Is washed from the blue Of my eyes, I see you beautiful. Amores Poems The glory of dying in France to lie under a field of poppies had come to this drear mystery of dying in Russia under a dread disease in a strange and unlovely place. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 What schemes will nature not embrace T' avoid less shame of drear distress? The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency The leafless wood looks drear and sad, No birds sing now with voices glad;— But boys are romping far and wide, And o'er the ice delight to slide. Chatterbox Stories of Natural History Give rather back the old hallucinations— The visible spirits—the rapture, terror, grief Of faith so human, than the drear negations Of dumb, dead unbelief! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 A little white moth, with broken wings, Came home, when nights were drear, To breathe her last on the daisy’s breast. The Heiress of Wyvern Court These features of South African nature, its silence, its loneliness, its drear solemnity, have not been without their influence upon the mind and temper of the European settler. Impressions of South Africa He sees the wrecks upon the shore, And everything is drear; The rolling waves around him roar, The angry clouds their torrents pour, His friends are gone forevermore, And he alone is here. Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman Change came o'er it all too soon; In a cold and drear November Died the leafy wealth of June; Winter kill'd our summer roses; Discord marr'd a heavenly tune. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Esther faintly comprehended the inexorable justice of final judgment, but pitied poor, erring, bewildered, helpless human wanderers, gravitating so swiftly and surely to drear, friendless caverns of eternal night. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 She forgets all the cruel words that have been said, while a terrible compassion for the loneliness, the utter barrenness of his drear old age, grows within her. Molly Bawn Oh! say not life is ever drear, For midst its scenes of toil and care There 's aye some joy the heart to cheer— There 's aye some spot that 's green and fair. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century We are so helpless, Lord, Thou art all power and might; Our path is often drear, Be thou our light. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. Oh, swiftly bounds our gallant bark Across the ocean drear, While manly cheeks are pale wi' grief, And wet wi' sorrow's tear. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Home and cathedral fall In ruin, and the blackened provinces Reach on to drear horizons. The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army But oh! how dark, how drear, how lone, Would seem the brightest world of bliss, If, wandering through each radiant one, We failed to find the loved of this! The Liberty Minstrel The weary winds howl lang an' loud; But 'mid their howling drear, Words sweeter far than honey blabs Fa' saftly on my ear. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century It was twilight; all the narrow valley drear and mournful; horses and men like phantoms on the muffled earth. The Long Roll In you the rich may stalk the deer, Thou 'lt know the tread of prince and peer; But oh, the poor man's heart is drear To part from you for ever! The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The land lay in a wan apathy of suffering, dumb, hopeless, drear. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance His wife and the elder amongst the beautiful children fled like mad creatures across the brown fallows, and the drear blackened meadows. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida The empty cabin looked strangely quiet and drear, and the door of the stateroom stood ajar. Sea Urchins "Oh ride I to my darling's arms, Or to the grave so drear?" Songs Of The Road Where I shall lie, no man can say; The flowers all are fallen away; The desert is so drear and grey, O Marta of Milrone! Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp The April sky sags low and drear, The April winds blow cold, The April rains fall gray and sheer, And yeanlings keep the fold. Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses On, on with hurrying feet I range, And left and right in the dumb hillside Grey gorges open, drear and strange, And so I come to the Eventide! A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry I thought of the days of my childhood ways, but storm and drear had changed things to an age of bronzed hue. The Secret of the Creation The Echo answered clear, "The grave so drear." Songs Of The Road The withered and the aged mistake their failing forces for calmness and resignation, and an apathy, the drear anticipator of death, for presence of mind. Rattlin the Reefer So frail her bark to stem life's sea so drear. Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst Once on a time, a mountain Bear Lived in a forest drear, with no Bears near him; Fat, fierce, and sulky. Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse Looking at them, one saw only the drear night drawing on. Vesty of the Basins The drear analogies succeed one another; she sees them everywhere, in everything. Browning's Heroines Let us but know we have a Friend that waits To welcome us to glory, and we joy To tread that drear and northern wilderness.” By Canoe and Dog-Train But when I got here, the town looked so savage, don't you know, so—drear—and desolate and—and flimsy, I got a bit home-sick—there! The Madigans Go not unthinking on your way, Content to sing, content to play, While I and mumps sit here alone In an unending, drear ‘At home.’ A College Girl Where he hides himself when winter, dark and drear, approaches, I’m sure I cannot tell; but I’ve never seen him then perambulating the streets. She and I, Volume 1 How can I bid Thee enter here Amid the desolation drear Of lukewarm love and craven fear? In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV Moan, ye wild winds! around the pane, And fall, thou drear December rain! The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 “For, ‘’Mid clouds and crags, dark pools and mountains drear, The wild-wood’s silence, and the billow’s roll, Great Nature rules, and claims with brow austere, The shudd’ring homage of the inmost soul.’ The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales" Lavender was sentimental and wrote poetry in which “pale roses died, in the garden wide, and the wind blew drear, o’er the stricken mere.” A College Girl And then the drear, sharp tongue of prophecy, With the dread sense of things which shall be done, Doth smite me inly, like a sword—a sword?— In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World There is gladness to all at its ancient call, While its ruddy fires are gleaming; And from far and near, o'er the landscape drear, The Christmas light is streaming. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV A drear, single man's room it was, from wall to wall, despite its fretted ceilings and official pomp of Bramah escritoires and red boxes. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Wherefore, monarch, hast thou brought me from the dungeon dark and drear, Where these limbs of mine have wasted in confinement for a year? The Bon Gaultier Ballads How dark our sinful world would be-- A flowerless desert, dry and drear! Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination In my Aunt Hattie's household, Though skies outside are drear, Though times are dark and troubled, You'll always find good cheer. Custer, and Other Poems. There is gladness to all at its ancient call, While its ruddy fires are gleaming, And from far and near, o'er the landscape drear, The Christmas light is streaming. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV Then in the drear dimness of the room a hideous laugh rang out. A Son of the Hills Why do you cling to the dear old graves, When the dim, drear mists of the dusk are creeping Out of the marshes in wan, white waves? Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses When he regained consciousness and a sense of danger, he found still around him that dense white vapor, through which the pale, drear day was slowly dawning. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories I'm sorry for the generous hearts who freely shared their wine, But drink alone the gall of tears in fortune's drear decline. Custer, and Other Poems. It is drear and chill where the dear lie dead, Yet light enough with the snow to see; But what would you do with that Christmas-tree At the tiny mound that is baby's bed? In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV Drear, oh, how drear! with their thunder-battered peaks rising abruptly from the ocean, casting long black shadows to the eastward. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' Old ocean, with a heavy surge, Cold, black and drear, Roll thou the solemn note of dirge On Europe's ear! Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems One drear autumnal afternoon, when the sky was dull, a dense white mist overspread the valley. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories We reach the slippery shore at length, A haven I but little prized, For all behind was dark and drear, And all before was night and fear. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 Blessed Trinity! be near Through the hours of darkness drear. Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest The cliffs on the island, drear and black by daylight, showed like mountains of red beef through the crimson fog. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' "No voice hath breathed upon mine ear Thy name since last we met; No sound disturbed the silence drear, Where sleep entombed from year to year, Thy memory, my regret." Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems And there we sat—I in my sister’s arms—hopeless in the drear light of that day. Doctor Luke of the Labrador The solitudes of nature may be wild and drear, but they are not like the solitude from which human glory is swept away. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Below, at the foot of that precipice drear, Spread the gloomy and purple and pathless Obscure! The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 A drizzling rain was falling and the country looked chilly and drear. The Great War As I Saw It For many a frivolous, festive year I followed the path that I felt I must; I failed to discover the road was drear, And rather than otherwise liked the dust. The Farringdons Ah, a drear and ghastly face it was, turned up to the gorgeous sunset, the gentle ambient air, the happy, fleeting shadows of the homing birds. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Now I leave the cot behind me Where my love hath her abode; And I wander with veiled footsteps Through the drear and darksome wood. The Youth of Goethe Sheets of light shone here and there in the darkness, but the world outside was dark and drear. The Eternal City Had it not been for my hopeful disposition, my pluck and energy to overcome obstacles, combined with clear reasoning, life would have looked drear enough. Sixty Years of California Song On the other hand, she knew too well the drear loneliness that would close upon her in Vancouver when the Marshes left. North of Fifty-Three Dullest month of all the year,— Suicidal atmosphere, Everything is dark and drear, Filling nervous minds with fear, Skies are seldom ever clear, Fogs are ever hov'ring near,— 'Tis a heavy load to bear. Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect Though your smiling turn to weeping, Though your skies grow cold and drear, Though your gentle winds are sleeping, April! Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two The rooms were drear and empty, their hollow floors mocking his footsteps with long-silent echoes. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII If heartstrings be but tuned aright Sweet melodies we hear; If strung with envy and deceit, The tone is doleful, drear. Our Profession and Other Poems December winged by, the days succeeding each other like glittering panels on a black ground of long, drear nights. North of Fifty-Three Without interest, or enthusiasm, almost any kind of compulsory effort becomes drab and drear and irksome. Heart and Soul by Maveric Post It does not seem the country, but a vast yard—shadeless, glaring, drear, and dry. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 Shall I leave thee, thou land to my infancy dear, Ere I know aught of toil or of woe, For the clime of the stranger, the solitude drear, And a thousand endearments forego? The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The winds were yelling, the waves were swelling, The sky was black and drear, When the crew with eyes of flame brought the ship without a name Alongside the last Buccaneer. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys She did not once experience the drear loneliness that had sat on her like a dead weight the last month before she turned her back on Granville and its unhappy associations. North of Fifty-Three So, while the moon lit up Kasuga's crest, O'er Sahogáha's flood thy corse they bore To fill a tomb upon yon mountain's breast, And dwell in darkness drear for evermore. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan But still as wilder blew the wind And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode arm�d men, Their trampling sounded nearer. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language Ah, yes, the world is drear Outside; there is no rest. Primavera Poems by Four Authors The flare of torches wavered afar between the tree boles, and above the lapping of the waves walled a drear hymn. The Henchman From prisonlike cellars unwholesome and drear, From attic and alley, from labor severe, For the poor and the famished doth kindness prepare A world of diversion and excellent fare. Poems Vol. IV So, when everything the world could yield him lay at his feet, the drear, silent north trail only knew him. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon It was a beautiful day—one of those rare days which gladden the drear northern spring and remind dwellers in Boston that they live under the same latitude under which Naples idles. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow |
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