 Day was breaking When at the altar of the temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chaunt Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate wail, and there, alone, Wasted to ghastly...  Melanie and Other Poems - Page 86by Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1835 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1835 - 866 pages
...a struggling light, and a lowchaunt Swelled through the arches of the roof Like an articulate wall, and there, alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Helon...melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles, and be rose up, Struggling with weakness, and bowed down his head Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - American poetry - 1831 - 88 pages
...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant. Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like...there, alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Helon knelt. '.. . •4 • ; 30 THE LEPER. The echoes of the melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles, and... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense-lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof, Like an articulate wail, and tkere, alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Helon knelt. The echoes of the melancholy strain Died in... | |
 | American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the holiow arches of the roof Like an articulate wail; and there,...rose up, Struggling with weakness, and bowed down hia head Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off His costly raiment for the leper's garb, And, with the... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1846 - 364 pages
...the melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles, and he rose up, Struggling with weakness, and bow'd down his head Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off His costly raiment for the leper's garh ; And with the sackcloth round him, and his lip Hid in a loathsome covering, stood still, Waiting... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...temple stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chant Swelled through the hollow arches of the roof Like...wail ; and there, alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Heion knelt. The echoes of the melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles, and he rose up, Struggling... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Bible - 1859 - 290 pages
...stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burn'd with a struggling light, and a low chant Swell'd through the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate...aisles, and he rose up, Struggling with weakness, and bow'd down his head Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off His costly raiment for the leper's garb ;... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1848 - 504 pages
...stoo The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burn'd with a struggling light, and a low chant Swell'd through the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate...aisles, and he rose up, Struggling with weakness, and bow'd down his head Unto the sprinkled ashes, and put off His costly raiment for the leper's garb :... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...stood The holy priest of God. The incense lamp Burn'd with a struggling light, and a low chant Swell'd through the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate...there alone, Wasted to ghastly thinness, Helon knelt. 2 The echoes of the melancholy strain Died in the distant aisles, and he rose up, Struggling with weakness,... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...holy priest of God. The incense-lamp Burned with a struggling light, and a low chaunt Swelled thro' the hollow arches of the roof Like an articulate wail ; and there alone, To ghastly thinness shrunk, the leper knelt — The echoes of the melancholy strain Died in the distant... | |
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