 The cold sweat melted from their limbs, 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 oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's...  The book of celebrated poems - Seite 341von Book - 1854 - 448 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1843 - 744 Seiten
...still lives for us in the dead founders of the English abbeys : " An orphan's curse would drag to hell, A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that, Is the curse in a dead man's eye !" and that on us even of the third and fourth generation will be visited our fathers' sins. It is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is a power, And. all that beauty, all that wealth e'er...these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trop bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoarfrost spread ; But where the ship's huge shadow lay The charmed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...hell A spirit from on high ; liut oh ! more horrible than that Ь a curse in a dead man's eye ! Seren ert bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoarfrost spread ; liut where the ship's huge shadow lay The charmed... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 Seiten
...An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is a curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights,...was going up, And a star or two beside. Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoarfrost spread ; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed... | |
 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But, O, more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's...Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside. 1™"%."! the stars that still soJoum yet still move onward, and everywhere the blue sky belongs to... | |
 | Sir Henry Spelman - 1846 - 546 Seiten
...heritage that the departed have bequeathed you, as not to tremble ? An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh, more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! It is to you that the festering mass of corruption and guilt in our manufacturing districts is owing... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 Seiten
...never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh ! more terrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven...was going up And a star or two beside — Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread ; And where the ship's huge shadow lay, The... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 Seiten
...meu.ea 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 oh ! more horrible than...nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. Moon wen* UP the sky, "earaelh" to* And DO where did abide : wards the Softly she was going up, journeying... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 Seiten
...be.T.IJtih God 1 , cre&lnrei of the iraal calm. The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did nbide . Softly she was going up. And a star or two beside—...April hoar-frost spread ; But where the ship's huge sltadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful rod. Beyond the shadow of the ship I watch'd... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 406 Seiten
...with which they looked on me thedeadmcn. Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than...I could not die. The moving Moon went up the sky, ie« a".'™"1'" And no where did abide : fixedness inc, « ii . yearneth tuSoftly she was going up,... | |
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