And why need ye sow the floods with death ? With mouldering bones the deeps are white, From the ice-clad pole to the tropics bright ; — The mermaid hath twisted her fingers cold With the mesh of the sea-boy's curls of gold, And the gods of ocean have... Philadelphia Monthly Magazine - Page 2261828Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...are foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death? With mouldering bones the deeps are white, From the ice-clad pole...sea-boy's curls of gold ; And the gods of ocean have frowned to see The mariner's bed 'mid their halls of glee; Hath earth no graves ? that ye thus must... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pages
...are foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death? With mouldering bones the deeps are white, From the ice-clad pole...sea-boy's curls of gold, And the gods of ocean have frqvned to see The mariner's bed in their halls of glee;— Hath earth no graves, that ye thus must... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1834 - 316 pages
...foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death •! With mouldering bones the deeps are white, From the ice-clad pole...sea-boy's curls of gold, And the gods of ocean have frowned to see The manner's bed 'mid their halls of glee; Hath earth no graves, that ye thus must spread... | |
| Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 pages
...are foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye sow me floods with death ? With mouldering bones the deeps are white, From the ice-clad pole...sea-boy's curls of gold, And the gods of ocean have frowned to see The mariner's bed in their halls of glee ; — Hath earth no graves, that ye thus must... | |
| 1836 - 268 pages
...foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death ? With mouldering bones the deeps are white-, From the ice-clad pole...sea-boy's curls of gold, And the gods of ocean have frowned to see The mariner's bed in their halte of glee ; — Hath earth no graves, that ye thus mast... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...sow the floods with death ? With mouldering bones the deeps are white, From the ice-clad pole to Ihe tropics bright ; — The mermaid hath twisted her...sea-boy's curls of gold, And the gods of ocean have froun'd to see The mariner's bed in fheir halls of glee ; — Hath earth no graves, that ye thus must... | |
| 1837 - 260 pages
...foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death ? With mouldering bones the deeps are white, From the ice-clad pole...sea-boy's curls of gold, And the gods of ocean have frowned to see The mariner's bed in their halls of glee ; — Hath earth no graves that ye thus must... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1837 - 416 pages
...are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death? With mouldering bones the deeps are white, From the ice-clad pole...sea-boy's curls of gold, And the gods of ocean have frowned to see The mariner's bed 'mid their halls of glee. Hath earth no graves, that ye thus must... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1837 - 426 pages
...are foes that watch for his cradle-breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death? With mouldering bones the deeps are white, From the ice-clad pole...With the mesh of the sea-boy's curls of gold, And (he gods of ocean have frowned to see The mariner's bed 'mid their halls of glee. Hath earth no graves,... | |
| 1837 - 538 pages
...foes that watch for his cradle breath, And why need ye sow the floods with death ? With mouldering bones the deeps are white, From the ice-clad pole to the tropics bright ; — The niermaid hath twisted her fingers cold With the mesh of the sea-boy's curls of gold, And the gods of... | |
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