 One after one, by the star-dogged Moon, Too quick for groan or sigh, Each turned his face with a ghastly pang, And cursed me with his eye. Four times fifty living men, (And I heard nor sigh nor groan) With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down...  The Religious Spirit in the Poets - Page 145by William Boyd Carpenter - 1900 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1876 - 1000 pages
...horned moon (Listen, O stranger, to me) Each turned his face with a ghastly pang And cursed me witli his ee. Four times fifty living men. With never a...thump, a lifeless lump They dropped down one by one. Their souls did from their bodies fly, — They fled to bliss or woe; And every soul it passed me by,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...ghastly pang, And cursed me with his eye. ' Four times fifty living men — And I heard nor sigh nor r delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and grac ' The souls did from their bodies fly — They fled to bliss or woe ! And every soul it passed me by... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 314 pages
...His shipmates Four times fifty living men drop down dead. , . , T , , ., , (And I heard nor sigh nor groan), With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one. But Life-in- The souis did from their bodies fly, Death begins her J work on the an- They fled to bliss... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 pages
...a ghastly pang, And cursed me with his eye. Four times fifty living men, (And I heard nor sigh nor groan) With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one. The souls did from their bodies fly,They fled to bliss or woe ! And every soul, it passed me by, Like... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...ghastly pang, And cursed me with his eye. ' Four times fifty living men — And I heard nor sigh nor groan — With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one. ' The souls did from their bodies fly — They fled to bliss or woe ! And every soul it passed me by... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1879 - 556 pages
...a ghastly pang, and cursed me with his eye ! Four times fifty living men (and I heard nor sigh nor groan), With heavy thump — a lifeless lump ! — they dropped down one by one : The souls did from their bodies fly — they fled to bliss or woe! And every soul it passed me by,... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...ghastly pang( 210 And cursed me with his eve. " Four times fifty living men, (And I heard nor sigh nor groan,) With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one. 215 " The souls did from their bodies fly, — They fled to bliss or woe I And every soul, it passed... | |
 | 1879 - 314 pages
...his eye. His shipmates Four times fifty living men drop down dead. J ,° (And 1 heard nor sigh nor groan), With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one. B«t Life-in- The souls did from their bodies flv, — Death begms her work on the an- They fled to... | |
 | Robert S. Bevier - 1879 - 538 pages
...the bodies of their fallen comrades. " Four times fifty living men, (And lost their sighs and groans) With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one ; Their souls did from their bodies fly, They fled to bliss or woe. And every soul was a soldier bold,... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - 1879 - 376 pages
...drip — Till clomb above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip. With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one. "The souls did from their bodies fly,— They fled to bliss or woe ! And every soul, it passed me by,... | |
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