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" A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. "
Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes - Page 172
by William Wordsworth - 1800
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Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1798 - 240 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I clos'd my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Ne rot, ne reek did they ; The look with which they look'd on me, Had never pass'd away. An orphan's...
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The Naval Chronicle, Volume 2

James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1799 - 714 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I clos'd my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat, For the Sky, and the Sea,...at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Ne rot, ne reck did they ; The Look with which they look'd on me, Had never pass'd away. An Orphan's...
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Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ...

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...wicked whisper came and made ' My heart as dry as dust. ' I clos'd my lids and kept them close, ' Till the balls like pulses beat; , * For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the ' Lay like a load on my weary eye, ' And the dead were at my feet. sky ,_ ., * The cold sweat melted...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two ..., Issue 356, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...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...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea,...were at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbsr Nor rot nor reek did they ; The look with which they looked on me, Had never passed away. An...
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Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay, like a cloud, on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, i Nor...
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Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky The cold sweat melted &om their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they : The look with which they look'd...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 218

England - 1925 - 948 pages
...the Pacific. Scurvy attacked the crews. The 'Tale of the Ancient Mariner ' became their reality. " For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky, Lay like a lcad on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet." Seams opened, and they could barely drag themselves...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 36

England - 1834 - 918 pages
...whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. " 1 closed my lids, and kept them close, And the halls like pulses beat ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the fcky, Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. " The cold sweat melted from their...
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The cabinet; or The selected beauties of literature [ed. by J ..., Volume 1

Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses heat ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay, like a cloud, on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limb>, Nor rot...
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