 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...Still in rude armour drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou...manifold, No Skald in song has told, No Saga taught thee ! Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For... | |
 | 1842 - 498 pages
...Still in rude armour drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not iu Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou...Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber. This is a noble use made of the skeleton, to put such poetic life in him. He was a " Viking old !"... | |
 | 1842 - 620 pages
...Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou haunt me?" Then, from those cavernous eyes Pale Hashes seemed to rise, As when the Northern skies Gleam in...water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of wo From the heart's chamber. To the solemn address of the bard, the spectral representative of Scandinavian... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...asking alma, Why dost thou haunt me 1" Then, from those cavernous eyes Pale flashes seem'd to rise, Aa when the northern skies Gleam in December! And, like...water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of wo From the heart's chamber: "Far in the northern land, By the wild Baltic's strand, 1, with my childish... | |
 | 1842 - 606 pages
...Danish warrior, whose remains, clad in broken and corroded armour, had been dug up at Fall River : I was a Viking old ! My deeds, though manifold, No Skald in song has told, No Saga taught thee! Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...Still in rude armour drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou...manifold, No Skald in song has told, No Saga taught thee ! Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For... | |
 | Pascal Jones - 1845 - 298 pages
...stolen my pocketbook with more than two hundred dollars in it. Search the villain while 1 hold him ! " Then from those cavernous eyes Pale flashes seemed...rise, As when the northern skies Gleam in December ! "Man, you are mad!" said he, "to charge such a crime on an old man like me. Search me and see, for... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...Still in rude armour drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou...manifold, No Skald in song has told, No Saga taught thee ! Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...Still in rude armour clrcst, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou...flashes seemed to rise, As when the Northern skies i Gleam in December ; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of wo From... | |
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SPEAK ! speak ! thou fearful guest ! Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms. Why dost thou haunt me ? " Then, from those cavernous... 
