 | 1848 - 594 pages
...for one more melancholy, I pray to God that she may lie For ever thus with closed eye ! My love, she sleeps. Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep ! Heaven have her in its sacred keep ! Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall tomb unfold... | |
 | Lewis William Mansfield - American fiction - 1852 - 348 pages
...something gold-rimmed, like a locket. Only for this carelessness of sleep, I never should have seen it. " The lady sleeps ! Oh may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep 1" Some days since we were all discussing Frank, and with that perverse ingenuity which we all sometimes... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1853 - 522 pages
...to God that she may lie Forever with unopened eye, While the dim sheeted ghosts go by ! My love, she sleeps ! Oh, may her sleep As it is lasting, so be deep ! — Soft may the worms about her creep ! Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall vault... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...that she may lie For ever with unopened eye, While the dim sheeted ghosts go by ! IV. My love, she sleeps ! Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep ! Soft may the worms about her creep ! Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall vault... | |
 | University of Edinburgh - English essays - 1857 - 430 pages
...loathsome things of the grave yield sweet music to the sadhearted poet as he sings — My love, she sleeps ! Oh, may her sleep As it is lasting so be deep I Soft may the worms about her creep ! I pray to God that she may lie For ever with unopened eye, While... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 388 pages
...God that she may lie For ever with unopened eye, While the dim sheeted ghosts go by ! My love, she sleeps ! Oh, may her sleep As it is lasting, so be deep ! Soft may the worms about her ereep ! Far in the forest, dim and old, 71 For her may some tall vault... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 332 pages
...God that she may lie For ever with unopened eye, While the dim sheeted ghosts go by ! My love, she sleeps ! Oh, may her sleep As it is lasting, so be deep ! Soft may the worms about her creep ! Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall vault... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 200 pages
...God that she may lie For ever with unopened eye, While the dim sheeted ghosts go by ! My love, she sleeps ! Oh, may her sleep As it is lasting, so be deep •! .Soft may the worms about her creep ! Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall vault... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 332 pages
...God that she may lie For ever with unopened eye, While the dim sheeted ghosts go by ! My love, she sleeps ! Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep ! Soft may the worms about her creep ! Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall vault... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - American poetry - 1873 - 556 pages
...God that she may lie For ever with unopened eye, While the dim sheeted ghosts go by ! My love, she sleeps ! Oh may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep ! Soft may the worms about her creep ! Far in the forest, dim and old, For her may some tall vault... | |
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My love, she sleeps. Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep! 
