 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
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. " I looked upon the rotting sea, 240 And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the rotting...and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gusht, 245 A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. " I closed my lids, and kept them close,... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...beautiful I And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. ract them. — I was, indeed, like a person, over a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lide,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1873 - 472 pages
...dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did L He despiseth the creatures of the calm. I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew...upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. And envieth that they should live, and so many lie dead. I looked to Heaven, and tried to pray; But... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...lay. I look'd to heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gush'd, A wicked whisper «ame, poor starveling elf ! hie paper kito may fly. And this perhaps, who, censuring ; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky, Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 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... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 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, Beyond the shadow... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales) - 1874 - 582 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...heaven, and tried to pray ; But or ever a prayer had gushed, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Anthologies - 1875 - 240 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... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...did lie I And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on —and so did L " I looked upon the rolting sea, And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the rotting...dry as dust. "I closed my lids and kept them close, Till the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay like a load on... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...And there the dead men lay. I look'd to Heaven, and tried to pray; But, or ever a prayer had gnsht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as...and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; [the sky For the sky and the sea, and the sea and Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were... | |
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