Your jailer a spider huge and grim, Amid the carrion bodies to lie, Of the worm, and the bug, and the murdered fly : These it had been your lot to bear, Had a stain been found on the earthly fair. The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems - Page 14by Joseph Rodman Drake - 1847 - 92 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1835 - 842 pages
...exposition of the criminal code,) Tied to the hornet's shardy wings ; Tossed on the pricks of nettles' stings ; Or seven long ages doomed to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut shell ; Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath the tread of the centipede ; Or bound in... | |
| John Keese - 1840 - 302 pages
...Bitter had been thy punishment. Tied to the hornet's shardy wings ; Tossed on the pricks of nettles' stings ; Or seven long ages doomed to dwell With the...in the walnut-shell ; Or every night to writhe and ble«d Beneath the tread of the centipede ; Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim, Your jailer a spider... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 pages
...Tied to the hornet's shard y wings; Toss'd on the pricks of nettles' stings; Or seven long ages doom'd to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut-shell ; Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath th» tread of the centipede ; Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim, Your jailer a spider huge and grim,... | |
| 1844 - 671 pages
...Tied to the hornet's shady wings ; Toss'd on the pricks of nettles' stings, Or seven long ages doom'd to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut-shell; Or...jailer a spider huge and grim, Amid the carrion bodies lie Of the worm, and the bug, and the murder'd fly." Most appropriate tortures, these, for a fairy... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...been thy punishment. Tied to the spiteful hornet's wings; Tossed on the points of nettles' slings; For seven long ages doomed to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut sheH ; Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath the tread of the centipede ; Or bound in a... | |
| 1845 - 614 pages
...Bitter had been thy punishment. Tied to the hornet's shardy wings ; Tossed on the pricks of nettles' stings ; Or seven long ages doomed to dwell With the...walnut-shell; Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath tue tread of the centipede; Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim, Vonr jailer a spider huge and grim, Amid... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...pricks of nettles' stings, Or seven long ages doom'd to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut shell ; Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath the tread...a spider huge and grim, , Amid the carrion bodies lie Of the worm, and the bug, and the murderM fly." Most appropriate tortures, these, for a fairy inquisition... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...Bitter had been thy punishment. Tied to the hornet's shardy wings; Tossed on the pricks of nettles' stings; Or seven long ages doomed to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut shell; Or every night to writhe and bleed Beneath the tread of the centipede; Or bound in a... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...shardy wings ; Toss'd on the pricks of nettles' stings; Or seven long ages doom'J to dwell With the iaqr worm in the walnut-shell ; Or every night to writhe...of the centipede; Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim, V our jailer a spider huge and grim, Amid the carrion bodies to lie, Of the worm, and the bug, and... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...to the hornet's «hardy wings; Tosä'd on the pricks of nettles' stings; Or seven long ages cloom'J to dwell With the lazy worm in the walnut-shell; Or...writhe and bleed Beneath the tread of the centipede; Or hound in a cobweb dungeon dim, V'iiur jailer a spider huge and grim, Amid the carrion bodies to lie,... | |
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