 | Studies in verse (1865) |  |
Therefore, her scanty preparations made,
She left the porter's kindly room, and set
Her face to leave the city: but, because
The crowded ways at noontide hinder'd her,
She stood upon the pavement waiting time
To cross a waggon-crowded thoroughfare;
A gaudy carriage grazing through the throng
Went by, all brass and lacquer, to the speed
Of lofty-going horses, as they sent
The mire to right and left among the crowd;
And then the widow raised her eyes, and saw
Within the carriage seated side by side
Agnes, her daughter once, and Edward Mayne.
She left the porter's kindly room, and set
Her face to leave the city: but, because
The crowded ways at noontide hinder'd her,
She stood upon the pavement waiting time
To cross a waggon-crowded thoroughfare;
A gaudy carriage grazing through the throng
58
Of lofty-going horses, as they sent
The mire to right and left among the crowd;
And then the widow raised her eyes, and saw
Within the carriage seated side by side
Agnes, her daughter once, and Edward Mayne.
| Studies in verse (1865) | |