And to each rose-tree's stem, that bends

With silvery snow-combs, glued with frost,

It seems each summer rosebud sends

Its airy, scentless ghost.

A stiff Elizabethan pile,

With bleakness chattering in its panes,

Where, rumbling down each chimney-file,

The mad wind shakes his reins.


Lone in the northern angle, dim