 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 eye!...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 434edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! 260 Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. " The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide : Softly she was going up, 265 And a star... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 130 pages
...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, I saw that curse, '" hls i°»cli»«s and And yet I Could not die. towards the journey. . / ' ,, *?. 9 fixedness he... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is a curse in B ă ϐ The moving moon went up th0 sky, And nowhere did abide : Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1873 - 420 pages
...spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is a curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven clays, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying -Moon, and the stars that still... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 466 pages
...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, I saw that curse, -And yet I could not die. The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide : Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales) - 1874 - 580 pages
...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, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide ; Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Anthologies - 1875 - 242 pages
...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 ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. " The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide : Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...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 ! Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse. And yet I could not die. "The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...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 eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse — And yet I could not die. "The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide ; Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye I Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. " The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide : Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
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