The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's... The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge - Page 12by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1866 - 588 pages
...And, oh ! more horrible than all was that curse in their dead eyes, which had never passed away : •' Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. The many men, so beautiful ! And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pages
...Nor rot nor reek did they : him in thp The look with which they looked on me 7e of the J dead men. Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag...nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. • The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide : Softly she was going up, And a star or... | |
| English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...the dead were at my feet. " The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they looked on me Had never passed...nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. Rut the curse liveth fur him i the eye of the dead men. " The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 530 pages
...And the dead were at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they ;The look with which they looked on me Had never passed...from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is a curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 264 pages
...And the dead were at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they ; The look with which they looked on me Had never passed...from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is a curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 558 pages
...but I wash my hands of this great responsibility. History will not hold such surrender blameless. " An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high " ; but the orphans of this war must heap curses heavenhigh upon the man who consents to see its blood and... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...the dead were at my feet. '- The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they looked on me, Had never passed...horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye t Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse, And yet I could not die. "The moving moon went up the... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...for him in the eye of the dead The cold sweat melted from limbs, — Nor rot nor reek did they ; The sturbed, she uttered a soft moan 0, more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that... | |
| 1872 - 660 pages
...the dead were at my feet. " The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they looked on me Had never passed...nights, I saw that curse ; And yet I could not die. " The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide ; Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
| Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...the dead were at my feet. " The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they looked on me Had never passed...than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye. Seven davs, seven nights, I saw that curse ; And yet 1 could not die. " The moving moon went up the sky,... | |
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