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The Lady's Magazine: Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ... - Page 24
1829
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Good Selections, in Prose and Poetry, for Use in Schools and Academies, Home ...

1885 - 180 pages
...soon As light was in the sky— And sought the black accursed pool With a wild, misgix'ing eye ; And 1 saw the dead in the river bed. For the faithless stream...and shook The dew-drop from its wing ; But I never marked its morning flight, I never heard it sing; For I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing....
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Bell's Ladies' Reader: a Class-book of Poetry for Schools and Families. With ...

David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...sought the black accursed pool with a wild misgiving eye ; — And I saw the Dead in the river-bed, for the faithless stream was dry. Merrily rose the...and shook the dew-drop from its wing ; But I never marked its morning flight, I never heard it sing : For I was stooping once again under the horrid thing....
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The English and American Poets and Dramatists of the Victorian Age: With ...

George Boyle - 1886 - 318 pages
...up as soon As light was in the sky, And sought the black, accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye; And I saw the Dead in the river bed, For the faithless...and shook The dew-drop from its wing; But I never marked its morning flight, I never heard it sing: With breathless speed, like a soul in chase, I took...
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Victorian Poets, Volume 1

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 564 pages
...Chamberlain That lighted me to bed; And drew my midnight curtains round, With fingers bloody red ! "Merrily rose the lark, and shook The dew-drop from...I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing." The old Hall in "The Haunted House" is a counterpart to the shadowy grand-staircase in the Ded(ock...
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Victorian Poets, Volume 1

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 566 pages
...fingers bloody red ! "Merrily rose the lark, and shook The dew-drop from its wing; Hood and Dichens. 84 But I never mark'd its morning flight, I never heard...I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing." The old Hall in "The Haunted House" is a counterpart to the shadowy grand-staircase in the Ded(ock...
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Fifty Years of English Song: The earlier poets. The Blackwood coterie, and ...

Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 332 pages
...And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye ; And I saw the Dead in the river bed, ' Merrily rose the lark, and shook The dew-drop from its wing; But I never marked its morning flight, I never heard it sing: For I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing....
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Victorian Poets: Revised, and Extended, by a Supplementary Chapter ..., Volume 1

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 364 pages
...and shook The dew-drop from its wing; ofUuir 84 But I never mark'd its morning flight, I never beard it sing : For I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing." The old Hall in "The Haunted House" is a counterpart to the shadowy grand-staircase in the Dedlock...
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Popular English readings in prose and verse, ed. by R. Ford

Robert Ford - 1892 - 144 pages
...— as soon As light was in the sky— And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye ; And I saw the dead in the river bed, For the faithless...and shook The dewdrop from its wing ; But I never marked its morning flight, I never heard it sing: For I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing....
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The Popular Elocutionist and Reciter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1894 - 586 pages
...— as soon As light was in the sky — And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye; And I saw the dead in the river bed, For the faithless...and shook The dewdrop from its wing ; But I never marked its morning flight, I never heard it sing : For I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing....
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A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895: Selections Illustrating the ..., Volume 1

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1895 - 388 pages
...up, as soon As light was in the sky, And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye : And I saw the Dead in the river bed, For the faithless...thing. " With breathless speed, like a soul in chase, 1 took him up and ran ; There was no time to dig a grave Before the day began : In a lonesome wood,...
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