 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. " I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the halls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea, and the...Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. " An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ;... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 134 pages
...made My heart as dry as dust. And the balls like pulses beat; I closed my lids, and kept them close, For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky,...at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, should live, and so many lie dead. The look with which they looked on me £'„£ in c' 'the ^ Nor... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And eed Of martyrs, crowned with heavenly meed. Then,...sleep, my measured hymn, And, at the close, the gleams And enrieth that they should live, and so many lie dead. The cold sweat melted from limbs, — Nor... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. " I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky, 250 Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. " The cold sweat melted from their... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...wicked whisper «ame, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And ng paes'd away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lide, and kept thorn close, And enjoyment. In that state crowds become an oppression to him; music even, But tbtc Nor rot nor reek did they : £ *°¿ The look with which they looked on me меп. liad never... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1873 - 472 pages
...A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close,And the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. sky * For the two last lines of this... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales) - 1874 - 582 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea,...Nor rot nor reek did they ; The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 pages
...A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. The WeddingGuest feareth that a spirit is talking to him ; But the ancient Mariner assureth him of his... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. " I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...Nor rot nor reek did they ; The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. " An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ;... | |
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A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. 
