 I took the dreary body up, And cast it in a stream — A sluggish water black as ink, The depth was so extreme. — My gentle boy, remember this Is nothing but a dream ! " Down went the corse with a hollow plunge, And...  Prose and Verse - Page 25by Thomas Hood - 1849 - 401 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Moore - 1792 - 584 pages
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 | 1828 - 602 pages
...topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the bloed-avenging sprite : — " Thou piilty man ! take up thy dead, And hide it from my sight...a stream, — A sluggish water, black as ink, The depth was so extreme. My gentle boy, remember this Is nothing but a dream ! ' Down went the corse with... | |
 | 1829 - 372 pages
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 | Thomas Hood - 1831 - 80 pages
...childish prayer, Nor join in Evening Hymn : Like a Devil of the Pit I seem'd, 'Mid holy Cherubim ! I took the dreary body up. And cast it in a stream. " And peace went with them, one and all, And each calm pillow spread; But Guilt was my grim Chamberlain... | |
 | 1836 - 706 pages
...from forth the frowning sky, From the heaven's top-moot height, 1 heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite : * Thou guilty man !...cast it in a stream — A sluggish water, black as iuk, The depth wa« so extreme. My gentle boy, remember this Is nothing but a dream! • Down went... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...from forth the frowning sky, From the heaven's topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite : — ' Thou guilty man...in a stream, — A sluggish water black as ink, The depth was so extreme. My gentle boy, remember this Is nothing but a dream ! " Down went the corse with... | |
 | 1846 - 608 pages
...height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite — " Thou guilty man ! takii up thy dead, And hide it from my sight !" " " ' I took the drejiry b idy up, And cost it in a stream — A sluggish water, black as ink, The depth was so extreme... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pages
...now, from forth the frowning sky From the heaven's topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging Sprite : — 'Thou guilty man...in a stream ; A sluggish water, black as ink, The depth was so extreme. — My gentle boy, remember this Is nothing but a dream 1 " Down went the corse,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...from forth the frowning sky, From the heaven's topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite : — 'Thou guilty man...a stream, — A sluggish water, black as ink, The depth was so extreme. My gentle boy, remember this Is nothing but a dream! " Down went the corse with... | |
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