 | E.H. Butler & Co - Readers - 1853 - 396 pages
...7. With shattered panes the grassy court was starred ; 8. O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted. 9. The flower grew wild and rankly as the weed ; Roses with thistles... | |
 | Evangeline F. Smith - 1883 - 422 pages
...presumptuous assertion for the child of a monkey ! " CHAPTER VIII. And over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted. HOOD. DiNN7EE was not till eight o'clock, and Josceline and Ralph,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 pages
...ragged roof the sky shone, barr'd With naked beam and rafter. 'O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!" The latter verse recurs throughout the poem with singular effect... | |
 | Literature - 1885 - 544 pages
...creature could have feasted there, Even the most ferocious. O'er all these hung a shadow and a fear — A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, ' The place is haunted.' " Not unfrequently, in his works and in his prefaces, Hawthorne... | |
 | Ignatius Scoles - Black people - 1885 - 124 pages
...and pointed at, as veritable haunted houses ; for ; — " O'er all there hangs the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Jwunted." Few, it may be, but genuine haunted houses we have ! enjoying all... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - English fiction - 1886 - 428 pages
...grow as he was trained. CHAPTEE XII. MRS. SOPHIA'S FEUD. • O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted.'—HOOD. WE had a houseful at Christmas. The Eev. Charles Henderson,... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - Ballads, English - 1887 - 336 pages
...straining eyeball was prepared to see Some Apparition standing. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! Yet no portentous Shape the sight amazed ; Each object plain, and... | |
 | Ada Goodrich-Freer - Parapsychology - 1899 - 356 pages
...might well be the original house of Hood's weird poem : — " For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! " It is buried in trees, reeking with damp, it has mysterious passages... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - Dialogues - 1900 - 468 pages
...creature could have feasted there, Even the most ferocious. For over all there hung a shadow and я rear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear — The place is haunted. The death-watch ticked behind the paneled oak, Inexplicable tremors... | |
 | Alix John - American fiction - 1901 - 396 pages
...alliance, and went their ways. CHAPTER XIX THE HAUNTED HOUSE " O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." WARWICK gave Adair careful directions for joining him that evening... | |
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O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted! 
