| 1920 - 1206 pages
...with amazed curiosity to know what the being would say. " Then, from those cavernous eyes, Pale fires seemed to rise As when the Northern skies Gleam in December ; And, like the water's ilow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber." And now, with a deep... | |
| 1842 - 650 pages
...! thou fearful guest ! Who, with thy hollow breast Slill in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt rne! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless...Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou haunt rne ?" Then, from those cavernous eyes Pale flashes seemed to rise, As when the Northern skies Gleatn... | |
| 1842 - 498 pages
...fearful guest Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armour drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not iu Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched,...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
...Speak ! speak ! thou fearful guest ! Who, with thy hollow breast Slill ia rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with...thou haunt me?" Then, from those cavernous eyes Pale Hashes seemed to rise, As when the Northern skies Gleam in December ! And, like the water's flow Under... | |
| 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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 pages
...dress'd, Comcst to daunt me ! Wrapp'd not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshiess palms Stretch'd as if Asking alms, Why dost thou haunt me?" Then, from those cavernous eyes Pale flashes seemM to rise, Aa when the northern skies Gleam in December! And, like the water's flow Under Decemher's... | |
| 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 - 462 pages
...SPEAK ! speak ! thou fearful guest ! Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armour clrcst, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...SPEAK ! speak ! thou fearful guest ! Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armour drest, Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not in eastern balms, But with...flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe " I was a Viking old ! My deeds, though manifold, No Skald in song has told, No Saga taught thee !... | |
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