 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...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...! Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For this I sought thee. " Far in the Northern Land, By the... | |
 | 1842 - 498 pages
...Comest to daunt me ! Wrapt not iu Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou haunt me ? Then from those cavernous...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 - 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...thee! Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For this I sought thee. Far in the Northern Land, By the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...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...! Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For this I sought thee. " Far in the Northern Land, By the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...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...! Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For this I sought thee. " Far in the Northern Land, By the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...skies i Gleam in December ; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of wo From the heart's chamber. " I was a Viking old ! My...manifold, No Skald in song has told, No Saga taught thee ! w Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, . Else dread a dead man's curse ! For... | |
 | Charles Timothy Brooks - 1851 - 110 pages
...palms Stretched, as if asking alms," Wliy dost thou haunt me ! ' ' Then, from those cavernous eye* Vale flashes seemed to rise. As when the Northern skies...'.. Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ? For tliis I sought theo. " Far in the Northern Land, By the... | |
 | Charles Timothy Brooks - 1851 - 112 pages
...to rise, As when the Northern skies Gleam in December ; And, like the water's flow Under Decembers snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber....Take heed, that in thy verse • Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse ! For this I sought thee. " Far in the Northern Land, By the-... | |
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Then, from those cavernous eyes Pale flashes seemed to rise, As when the Northern skies Gleam in December; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber. " I was a Viking old ! My deeds, though manifold,... 
