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" All night I lay in agony, From weary chime to chime; With one besetting horrid hint That racked me all the time — A mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime — "One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave! Stronger... "
Poems - Page xiii
by Thomas Hood - 1857 - 388 pages
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 pages
...mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime ! " One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave ; Stronger and stronger...grave ! " Heavily I rose up, as soon As light was m the sky, And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye ; And I saw the Dead in the...
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice

M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime ! " One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave ; Stronger and stronger...— \ Still urging me to go and see The Dead Man in hia grave ! "Heavily I rose up, as soon As light was in the sky, And sought the black accursed pool...
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The Model Speaker: Consisting of Exercises in Prose and Poetry. For the Use ...

Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 422 pages
...A mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime! "One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave; Stronger and stronger...the black, accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye; x And I saw the Dead in the river bed. For the faithless .stream was dry. " Merrily rose the lark,...
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Whimsicalities; a Periodical Gathering. To which are Added: "York and ...

Thomas Hood - 1870 - 692 pages
...mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime ! " One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave ; Stronger and stronger...urging me to go and see The dead man in his grave 1 " Heavily I rose up as soon As light was in the sky, And sought the black accursed pool With a wild...
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The Christian Witness and Congregational Magazine, Volume 6

1870 - 716 pages
...water, black as ink, the depth was so extreme." The next morning he visited the scene of his guilt, — "And sought the black accursed pool, With a wild misgiving eye ; And he saw the dead in the river bed, For the faithless stream was dry." Next he covered the corpse with...
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The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti

Thomas Hood - 1871 - 466 pages
...mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime ! " One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave ; Stronger and stronger...in the river bed, For the faithless stream was dry. I " Merrily rose the lark, and shook The dew-drop from its wing ; But I never mark'd its morning flight;...
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The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse ..., Volume 6

Thomas Hood - 1871 - 486 pages
...every pulse Did that temptation crave, — Still urging me to go and see The dead man in his grave I " Heavily I rose up as soon As light was in the sky,...in the river bed, For the faithless stream was dry I " Merrily rose the lark, and shook The dew-drop from its wing ; But I never mark'd its morning flight,...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...mighty yeanling, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime, — "One stern tyrannic thought, that made pure and thy spirit right, Thou shalt win the warlock fight. " If the spray-bead gem he won, AB light was in the sky, And sought the black accursed pool With a wild, misgiving eye ; And I saw...
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The Children's Garland from the Best Poets

1871 - 378 pages
...rack'd me all the time— A mighty yearning, like the first ' One stern tyrannic thought that made All other thoughts its slave ; Stronger and stronger...and see The dead man in his grave ! ' Heavily I rose up—as soon As light was in the sky— And sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye...
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Works, Volume 6

Thomas Hood - 1871 - 492 pages
...mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime ! " One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave ; Stronger and stronger...urging me to go and see The dead man in his grave I " Heavily I rose up as soon As light was in the sky, And sought the black accursed pool With a wild...
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