 I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, 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...  Eighth Reader - Page 138by Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - 1918 - 488 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...beautiful! And they all dead did lie; And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I! " I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away;...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...exist, " the very deep" appears to " rot" — " A thousand thousand slimy things Lived on, and so did I. I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away...upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay." And the vapor, also, which formerly supplied the land with the great element of fertility, when hurried... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 322 pages
...beautiful ! And they all dead did lie; And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I ! " I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away...upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay 1 " I looked to heaven, and tried to pray, But, or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came,... | |
 | 1860 - 966 pages
...the very deep" appears " to rot " — " À thousand thousand, slimy things Lived on, and go did I. I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away...upon the rotting deck. And there the dead men lay." And the vapour, also, which formerly supplied the land with the ?reat element of fertility when hurried... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...,ehnevieth And drew my eyes away ; should live, . , aiidsomany 1 looked upon the rotting deck, lie dead. And there the dead men lay. I looked to heaven, and...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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...there the dead men lay. " I look'd to heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gush'd, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as...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... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...beautiful ! And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. " I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away...wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. " The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide : Softly she was going up, And a star or two... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...beautiftd ! And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 392 pages
...beautiful ! And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. " I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away...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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 pages
...beautiful! And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. 42. ' I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away...upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. 43. ' I looked to heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gushed, A wicked whisper came,... | |
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