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" A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. "
The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion - Page 155
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Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1798 - 240 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I clos'd my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Ne rot, ne reek did they ; The look with which they look'd on me, Had never pass'd away. An orphan's...
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The Naval Chronicle, Volume 2

James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - 1799 - 714 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I clos'd my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat, For the Sky, and the Sea,...at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Ne rot, ne reck did they ; The Look with which they look'd on me, Had never pass'd away. An Orphan's...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I clos'd my lids and kept them close, Til) the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...pass'd away. An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from on high : But O ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days,...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I clos'd my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet 173 The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot, nor reek did they ; The look with which they look'd...
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Lyrical Ballads: With Pastoral and Other Poems

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I clos'd my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...pass'd away. An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from on high : But O ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days,...
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Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, in Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I clos'd my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...pass'd away. An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from on nigh : But O ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days,...
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Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ...

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...wicked whisper came and made ' My heart as dry as dust. ' I clos'd my lids and kept them close, ' Till the balls like pulses beat; , * For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the ' Lay like a load on my weary eye, ' And the dead were at my feet. sky ,_ ., * The cold sweat melted...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two ..., Issue 356, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...Nor rot nor reek did they ; The look with which they looked on me. Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to Hell A spirit from on high : But...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...were at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbsr Nor rot nor reek did they ; The look with which they looked on me, Had never passed away. An...
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Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat ;...sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay, like a cloud, on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, i Nor...
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