 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 436edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 382 pages
...spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven davs, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. 250 " The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did ahide : Softly she was going up, And a star... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 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. Inhisloneli- The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide : fixedness he yearneth towards... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1880 - 512 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 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. in his loneli- The moving Moon went up the sky, ness and , ,-, fixedness he And no where did abide... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...thousand slimy things Lived on, and so did I. 586 IV But oh ! more horrible than that Is a curse ma dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse And yet I could not die! 12. " Bevond the shadow of the ship I watched the water snakes : Thev moved in tracks of shining white,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 650 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. inhisloneli- xhe moving Moon went up the sky, ness and . . i J ' fixedness he And no where did abide... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 308 pages
...drag 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. in hiiione- The moving Moon went up the sky, Softly she was going up, $£$£? Moon, and And a star... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oli ! more horrible than that Is the curse in lofty thought, In act embodied, my deliverance wrought. "And Aud yet I could not die. The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide : Softly she was going... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1882 - 448 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 could not die. In his loneli. The moving Moon went up the sky, ness and And no where did abide : ^nc.ls !"e Softly... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 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. Inhisloneli- The moving Moon went up the sky, nessand 6 r " fixedness he And no where d1d ab1de : Pranrdshthe... | |
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