Cottage Gray and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Cottage Gray and Other Poems A Cottage Gray "As one alone, once not alone." Slant morning sunbeams touched a cottage gray, Silent and lonely-in the village street. Once, long ago, (how long!) it had been gay With youth and hope, and all that makes life sweet. Life's hurrying stream flowed past, but nevermore Might cross the gloomy threshold of that door. Within the shelter of a shadowed room, A lonely woman mused of mornings fled. The silence closed around her like a tomb; The house seemed haunted by her quiet tread. So pale, so wan, so passionless her face, She looked the ghost of that deserted place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.