 | A. W. Patterson - Readers - 1875 - 252 pages
...up, as soon As light was in the sky, And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye ; And I saw the Dead in the river bed, For the faithless stream was dry. 10. "Merrily rose the lark, and shook The dew-drop from its wing; But I never marked its morning flight,... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 272 pages
...pool With a wild misgiving eye ; And I saw the dead in the river bed, JFor the faithless stream vvas dry ! "Merrily rose the lark, and shook The dewdrop from its wing ; But I never marked its morning flight, J never heard it sing : For I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing.... | |
 | Readers and speakers - 1875 - 448 pages
...up, as soon As light was in the sky, And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye ; And I saw the Dead in the river bed, For the faithless stream was dryl "Merrily rose the lark, and shook The dew-drop from its wing ; But I never marked its morning... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...And sought the black accursed pool With a wild, misgiving eye ; And I saw the dead in the river-bed, For the faithless stream was dry. " Merrily rose the...and shook The dew-drop from its wing ; But I never marked its morning flight, I never heard it sing, For I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1876 - 288 pages
...And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye; And I saw the dead in the river-bed, For the faithless stream was dry. "Merrily rose the...and shook The dew-drop from its wing; But I never marked its morning flight, I never heard it sing; For I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing.... | |
 | Recitations - 1876 - 734 pages
...up, as soon As light was in the sky, And sought the black, accursed pool, With a wild, misgiving eye; And I saw the dead in the river bed, For the faithless stream was dry. ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS. " With breathless speed, like a, soul in chase, I too! him up ami ran;... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...And sought the black accursed pool With a wild, misgiving eye ; And 1 saw the dead in the river-bed, For the faithless stream was dry. " Merrily rose the...and shook The dew-drop from its wing ; But I never marked its morning flight, I never heard it sing, For 1 was stooping once again Under the horrid thing.... | |
 | James Wells - Bible stories, English - 1877 - 356 pages
...morning he visited the spot, " And sought the black accursed pool, With a wild misgiving eye ; And he saw the dead in the river bed, For the faithless stream was dry." He next covered the corpse with a heap of leaves, but a mighty wind swept past, and laid the secret... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 pages
...up, as soon As light was in the sky, And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye ; And I saw the Dead in the river bed, For the faithless...and shook The dewdrop from its wing ; But I never marked its morning flight, I never heard it sing : For I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing.... | |
 | William Walters - 1878 - 128 pages
...everything but that one ghastly object. — " Merrily rose the lark, and shook The dew-drop from his wing ; But I never mark'd its morning flight, I never...I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing. " He describes his hasty removal of the body to a lonesome wood, where he covers it with leaves and... | |
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With breathless speed, like a soul in chase, I took him up and ran;— There was no time to dig a grave Before the day began: In a lonesome wood, with heaps of leaves, I hid the murdered man! 
