 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1831 - 80 pages
...childish prayer, Nor join in Evening Hymn : Like a Devil of the Pit I seem'd, 'Mid holy Cherubim ! I took the dreary body up. And cast it in a stream. " And peace went with them, one and all, And each calm pillow spread; But Guilt was my grim Chamberlain... | |
 | Periodicals - 1836 - 706 pages
...heaven's top-moot height, 1 heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite : * Thou guilty man ! take up thy dead, And hide it from my sight...cast it in a stream — A sluggish water, black as iuk, The depth wa« so extreme. My gentle boy, remember this Is nothing but a dream! • Down went... | |
 | Periodicals - 1836 - 676 pages
...guilty man ! take tip thy dead, And bide it from my sight ." 4 I took the dreary body up, And caflt it in a stream — A sluggish water, black as ink, The depth waa so extreme. My gentle boy, remember thia la nothing but a dream ! 4 Down went the corne with a... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite : — ' Thou guilty man ! take up thy dead And hide it from my sight !...! " Down went the corse with a hollow plunge, And vanish'd in the pool ; Anon I cleansed my bloody hands And wash'd my forehead cool, And sat among the... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite — " Thou guilty man ! takii up thy dead, And hide it from my sight !" " " ' I took the drejiry b idy up, And cost it in a stream — A sluggish water, black as ink, The depth was so extreme... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite : — 'Thou guilty man ! take up thy dead And hide it from my sight !'...dream! " Down went the corse with a hollow plunge, And vanish'd in the pool ; Anon I cleansed my bloody hands And wash'd my forehead cool, And sat among the... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging Sprite : — 'Thou guilty 1 , 1 " Down went the corse, with a hollow plunge, And vanished in the pool : Anon I cleansed my bloody... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...heaven's topmost height I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite ; ' Thou guilty man ! take up thy dead, And hide it from my sight...in a stream — A sluggish water, black as ink, The death»was so extreme (My gentle boy, remember this Was nothing but a dream). " Down went the corse... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...heaven's topmost heighi I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite ; ' Thou guilty man ! take up thy dead, And hide it from my sight I' " I took the dreary body up, And cast it in a stream — A sluggish water, black as ink, , . .. The... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite :— 'Thou guilty man ! take up thy dead And hide it from my sight !'...! " Down went the corse with a hollow plunge, And vanish'd hi the pool ; Anon I cleansed my bloody hands And wash'd my forehead cool, And sat among the... | |
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And now, from forth the frowning sky, From the Heaven's topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite : — ' Thou guilty man ! take up thy dead And hide it from my sight... 
