Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep: Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. "So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, Till blood for blood atones! Ay,... L'allegro ; Or, Tales for Hut and Hall - Page 110by Mark Emery - 1835 - 283 pagesFull view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refus'd to keep, Or land, or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, Till blood with blood atones ! Ay, though he's buried in a cave, And trodden down with stones, And years have... | |
| 1828 - 514 pages
...And first began to weep, For 1 knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep...though he's buried in a cave, And trodden down with atones, And years have rotted off his flesh — The world shall see his bones ! Oh God, that horrid,... | |
| Periodicals - 1836 - 706 pages
...Aod first began to weep. For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep! ' So wills the fierce avenging sprite, TtU blood for blood atone»! Ay, though he's buried in a cave. And trodden down with stones ; And years... | |
| Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep...rotted off his flesh — The world shall see his bones ! " O God, that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again with a dizzy brain, The... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep. " ' So wilU the fii-rce avenging Sprite, Till blood for blood atones ! Ay,...years have rotted off* his flesh — The world shall gee his bones ! " ' Oh, God ! that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again, with... | |
| 1893 - 844 pages
...der Berliner Akademie der Wisaewckaften, ' p. 363. From Blackwood's Magazine. THE RESTLESS DEAD. " Ay ! though he's buried in a cave, And trodden down...rotted off his flesh, The world shall see his bones." HOOD : The Dream of Euitene Aram. [Five years before the date of this story, George Woodfall, a wealthy... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...lace, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep...rotted off his flesh — The world shall see his bones ! " O God, that horrid, horrid dream Besets me now awake ! Again — again, with a dizzy brain, The... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That Earth refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep...avenging sprite Till blood for blood atones ! Ay, though he 's buried in a cave, . And trodden down with stones, And years have rotted off his flesh — The... | |
| Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That Earth refused to keep ; Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep...avenging sprite Till blood for blood atones ! Ay, though he 's buried in a cave, And trodden down with stones, And years have rotted oflf his flesh — The... | |
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