 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
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...drag to Hell A spirit from on high ; But, O, more horrible than that Is a curse in a dead mau's eye 1 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 goiug up, And a star or two... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 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 - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But O ! more horrible than that Is a curse in n b : •• leuiioeei The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But 0, 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. in hisioneii- The movine moon went up the sky, ness he e ,. . ,. . yejrntth And nowhere did abide ;... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1877 - 414 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 no where did abide : Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...from on high; But oh ! more horrible than that Is a curse in a dead man's eye ! 212 POEMS OF PLACES. Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. In his loneliness The moving moon went up the sky, "eiSr^-dsAnd nowhere did abide; the journeying g... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1878 - 1114 pages
...orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is a curse in head. Not thrice your branching limes have blown Since I beheld young Laurence dead. Oh, The moving Moon went up the sky, 1 " nl ' And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh I more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse — And yet I coald not die. The moving moon went up the sky, In Hi л ji jj i -j And nowhere did abide ; Softly... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1878 - 768 pages
...hell A spirit from on high ; But oh i 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 movftig Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide : Softly she was going up, 265 And a star... | |
 | English poetry - 1879 - 314 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. Iifhis loneliness The moving moon went up the sky, and fixedness he iii , • i yearneth 'wards And... | |
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