 ... ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done : There was nothing lying at my foot But lifeless flesh and bone!  Poems - Page 4by Thomas Hood - 1854 - 388 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I fear'd him all the more, For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his...Were looking down in blame : I took the dead man by the hand, And call'd upon his name ! " O God, it made me quake to see Such sense within the slain !... | |
 | University magazine - 1846 - 780 pages
...his look That murder could not kill ! " ' And, lo ! the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly Hame ! Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down...upon his name ! " ' Oh, God ! it made me quake to sec Such sense within the slain ! But when 1 touch'd the lifeless clay, The blood gushed out amain... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...Nothing But lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I feared him all the more, For lying there so still ; There was a manhood in his...murder could not kill ! " And lo ! the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly flame — Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down in blame ;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...That could not du me ill : And yet I fear'd him all the more, Гиг lying there so still : There wa- a manhood in his look That murder could not kill ! " ' And, lo ! the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly flame ! Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down in Ышно :... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I feared him all the more, For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his...murder could not kill ! " And lo ! the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly flame — Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down in blame :... | |
 | 1847 - 522 pages
...Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I feared him all the more, For lying there so still ; There was a manhood in his look That murder could not kill." The piece entitled " Ode to Rae "Wilson, Esq.," is, of its kind, excelled, perhaps, by none in the... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I feared him all the more, For lying there so still ; There was a manhood in his...murder could not kill ! " And lo ! the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly flame — Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down in- blame ;... | |
 | 430 pages
...: There was a manhood in lus look, That murder could not kill ! " And lo ! the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly flame — Ten thousand thousand dreadful...Were looking down in blame ; I took the dead man by the hand. And called him by his ппгаг ! " Oh GCD ! it made me quake to see Such sense within the... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...Nothing bat lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ! And yet I feared him all the more, For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his look That murder could not kill 1 " And lo ! the universal air Seem'd lit with ghastly flame ; — Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
..." Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could do me no ill ; And yet I feared all the more, For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his...murder could not kill ! " And lo ! the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly flame — Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down in blame :... | |
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